Science fiction

Terms of Estrangement

Edited by Jesse Sheidlower,

From the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource that began as a project of the Oxford English Dictionary. meat puppet: the human body; a physical human being, especially…

Parable of the Butler

by Ed Park,

A science-fiction pioneer finds posthumous fame

Future as Parable

by John Crowley,

By John Crowley, from a lecture delivered in June at MoMA PS1 as part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is ”) series. Crowley’s article “Madame and the Masters” appeared…

Color Correction

by Victoria Foyt,

From a message posted in July by Victoria Foyt on the website for her young-adult novel Revealing Eden: Save the Pearls Part One, which Foyt describes as a “sci-fi fantasy…

Readings

by Ralph Lemon,

Strangely Familiar

by Harper’s Staff,

From a list of plots and. themes of stories submitted “too frequently” to Strange Horizons, an online magazine of “speculative fiction.” The document was compiled in order to provide guidance…