One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like sc...
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an explora...
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't w...
I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that...
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technolo...
What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up -...
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should b...
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do...
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space...
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine,...
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably betwe...
