the hard sf renaissance Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (Tor, 960 pages, $39.95)Hard science fiction, the core subgenre of SF that extrapolates the effects of science and technology ...

We all (I hope) love books, but a spoken phrase permits nuances denied to its written form. Take, for example, "science fiction." I am saying the words aloud, but you cannot tell if my tone ...

The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to ...

Stanley Schmidt has been synonymous with hard science fiction in the magazine world for the past 34 years that he’s been the editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, but now he’s moving on.