Young, stupid, and terminally online at the dawn of the digital era

Earth's billionaires are ready to colonize other worlds. The stars seem within our grasp - but are we truly ready or rushing headlong to our deaths?

The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?

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Content warnings for gender dysphoria and self harm. …and my penis is growing out of the back of my throat, and it’s choking me, and Sarah says, “I mean, of course I wouldn’t be comfortable if...

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Cory Doctorow's pro-interoperability treatise has an admirable reach, even as its grasp comes up short

Cory Doctorow's pro-interoperability treatise has an admirable reach, even as its grasp comes up short

The trope of the art-obsessed serial killer isn't just poetic. It's a dire warning against fascism and the aesthetics of mass death.

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Some authors, even when dedicated overall to the art of unsettling their readers, pull their punches when it comes to horror stories about children. Not so J. Ashley-Smith, whose debut collection The ...

FOE (2023) is tense, emotional climate sci-fi that balances isolation and ennui with an intimate relationship drama—but doesn't quite stick the landing.