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I'm not a huge fan of time travel because of all the paradoxes that are usually ignored or explained away…
Robots are ridiculously cool, but why, exactly? Are humans just narcissists that want to see copies of themselves? Do we…
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Far future science fiction (usually meaning about 10,000 years from now) is the most optimistic SF subgenre because it assumes…
For readers a little tired of familiar stories, non-English science fiction is one of their best sources for new perspectives,…
While hundreds of women published science fiction stories in the 1950s and earlier, it wasn't until the 1960s—with its second-wave…
Like many popular terms, "space opera" was coined as an insult. It's based on "soap opera" (nothing to do with…