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Writer-turned-famous-editor of Astounding Stories, John W. Campbell helped usher in the golden age of science fiction, driven by ...

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a book about cycles and violence--about the cost of progress. But it is also about the persistence of ...

Mythic worldbuilding and intentionality just weren't staples of science fiction until the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert ...

How do we cope with a crowded world we as humans were never evolutionarily designed for? Stand on Zanzibar was written in ...

Would you give up what made you unique in order to fit in everywhere? This is the question posed by William Gibson's short story, ...

Tolkien's writing was majorly influenced by the world he lived in--the concerns of World War II and the aftermath thereof were ...

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Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune began as a photograph of the Oregon coastline--literally, the dunes themselves. From there it ...

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Before we delve into Robert Heinlein's famous works, let's look at an overview of his writing career and the philosophical ideals he ...

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Let's start our journey to the center of hard science fiction: the works of Jules Verne, who imagined the technological wonders ...

Ways that we dream about the world sometimes create a shared vision that we start to believe is real. When William Gibson first ...

H.G. Wells brought his socialist perspective to science fiction, creating great works that really ask us to look at where the human ...

On the surface, Dune appears to be a peak demonstration of "the competent man" trope so popular in Golden Age science fiction, ...