I was tinkering with some old satellite telemetry data last week when a news alert popped up on my tablet about facial recognition software being...
I’ve been recommending Liu Cixin’s *Three-Body Problem* to hesitant sci-fi readers for about a decade now, and I’ve learned something interesting: the people who bounce...
You ever watch a sci-fi movie and find yourself mentally cataloging all the ways the physics don’t work? Yeah, occupational hazard of four decades in...
You know that moment when you discover something amazing and immediately want to grab everyone by the shoulders and ask why they didn’t tell you...
So there’s this moment that happens sometimes when you’re reading — like, you’re just sitting there turning pages and then WHAM, the book basically reprograms...
Three weeks ago, I did something I haven’t done in probably fifteen years — I walked into Powell’s Books and headed straight for the “New...
So there I was last Tuesday night, couldn’t sleep again, ended up putting on *Children of Men* for probably the tenth time this year. Something...
