Fiction WritingJune 16, 2026
Nostalgia is mostly a lie, but some of what we traded away after 2000 cost us something real. DVDs you actually owned, phone numbers in your head, the map of your own city, boredom that fed your imagination. A clear-eyed…
Fiction WritingJune 16, 2026
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a…
Fiction WritingJune 16, 2026
The Mars colony in the movies, a gleaming glass dome with green gardens and sunset views, would kill everyone inside a week. The real thing will be buried under meters of red dirt, built by robots before anyone arrives, and…
Fiction WritingJune 16, 2026
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, it was the beginning of space, and the wildest events in cosmic history happened in the first sliver of a second. A plain-language tour of the first nanosecond, what the leftover…
ComedyJune 14, 2026
Every May 25, fans of Douglas Adams carry a towel to honor the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide. The first Towel Day came in 2001, two weeks after his death at 49. Don't panic, and always know where your towel…
MayJune 14, 2026
Star Wars opened in 1977 and changed movies forever, and I was there on opening day, in a line that wrapped around the block. On May the Fourth, a look back at the film that taught a generation about myth.
AugustJune 14, 2026
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 18 and published it in 1818, often called the first real science fiction. The deepest thing about it: the monster was never the villain. A look at sympathy, creation, and responsibility.
AdaptationJune 14, 2026
Dune: Part Three lands December 18, 2026, adapting Dune Messiah and closing Villeneuve's trilogy. A ranking of every Dune adaptation, and a look at what makes Herbert's monumental source so hard to film.
OctoberJune 14, 2026
Frank Herbert's Dune was rejected by 20+ publishers before an auto-repair-manual company printed it. On his birthday, a look at the worldbuilding that makes Dune the genre's gold standard, and what it teaches anyone building a universe.
AugustJune 14, 2026
Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, the book that hooked me for life. On his birthday, a look at the lyrical, humane science fiction that took hold of me and never let go.
FebruaryJune 14, 2026
Jules Verne imagined submarines and space travel before either existed and is the second most translated author in history. On his birthday, the father of science fiction, reimagined from the inside.
JulyJune 14, 2026
Heinlein is one of science fiction's Big Three and the dean of the genre, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. A look at his plot-driven fiction and the complicated love I hold…
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