“After one thousand years of my existence I have come to the conclusion that life on earth is a cycle of repetitions, especially intolerable for a man of genius, whose entire being yearns for innovation."
Alexander Bogdanov | translated by Anastasiya Osipova | Nov 8, 2024
An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.
Peter Watts | May 13, 2024
Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.
Daniel Dennett | May 6, 2024
As with the best science fiction, Lem’s novel “The Invincible” has as much to teach us about our present situations as any futures we may face.
N. Katherine Hayles | Nov 2, 2023
“Like certain rare dreams,” C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, "The Night Land" can give “sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”
William Hope Hodgson | Aug 17, 2023
The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy.
John Rieder | Jan 30, 2023
A story from Adrian Hon’s book “A New History of the Future in 100 Objects”
Adrian Hon | Nov 9, 2022
“What can’t go on won’t go on. Capitalism is breaking the system, meaning people’s lives and the biosphere.”
James Bradley | Oct 11, 2022
When will we ever see realized what Sultana glimpses: the abolition of fossil-fuel technologies, the greenifying of cities, the detoxification of masculinity, and the triumph of love and truth over fear and hatred?
Joshua Glenn | Mar 24, 2022
Lem's 1964 story, published in English for the first time, tells the tale of a scientist in an insane asylum theorizing that the sun is alive.
Stanisław Lem, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Sep 20, 2021
