Outside of soap operas, is amnesia a real thing? Yes, according to scientists, it is. Of course, those same scientists also tell us that the Higgs Boson is a real thing, yet when you demand proof they get all kinds of sketchy. What is for sure, however, is that amnesia is like a gift from […]

The Octavia Project might be the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of. Starting this summer, girls from underserved neighborhoods in Brooklyn will have the chance to combine an interest in science fiction with hands-on STEM education, honing their SF writing and world-building skills while simultaneously working with guest experts to learn about programming, architecture, electronics, or game design. The […]

School’s out for the year, the weather has broken into full blown summer, all mosquitoes and sunburn, and I’ve become intensely nostalgic for summer vacation, those long months when I was made out of nothing but time. Man, but did I get some reading done, huddled in front of a fan on those days it […]

The #ownvoices hashtag has been percolating on social media for some time now. It’s generally used to signify a work of fiction by a minority writer, writing a story from within their own community and/or describing their own lived experience. Some will bristle at the implications, decrying that we are all human, and can therefore […]

I have a friend who refuses even to start reading a series that hasn’t wrapped up. I get it. Lo, how many hearts have been broken by the long publishing schedules of, say, A Song of Ice and Fire, or the untimely death of a talent like Robert Jordan, hip-deep in Wheel of Time. My […]