Category Archives: Science

The Moon Pool

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

Allow me to test a loose theory. Imagine a speculative fiction graph with “Distance in Time” along one axis, and “Distance in Space” along the other. Classic science fiction, indisputable science fiction, the Platonic form, if you will, of science … Continue reading →

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Strange Relations

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

This book is about alien sex. Not imperialist, colonial sex, with human male astronauts dominating winsome green-skinned babes à la Captain Kirk. Nor is it bestial. This is real mutual discovery and understanding between sentient beings. It’s not something you … Continue reading →

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Science Poem Manifesto

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

Earlier this year, I received a charming email from a pair of Helsinki-based artists and designers who work under the name of OK DO. OK DO is a socially-minded design think tank and online publication, and they wanted to know … Continue reading →

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Player Piano

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

One of the greatest tricks the great trickster Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. played on the world was convincing everyone he wasn’t a science fiction writer. Sure, lots of heads from our side claimed him as one of our own, but word … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Spock

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

Introducing the One-Picture Review:

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Time Enough for Love

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

Lazarus Long — née Woodrow Wilson Smith — is a 2,000 year old man. Born in pre-WWI America, he lives to see the proliferation of space travel, the destruction of the nation-state, the colonization of the universe, and the gradual … Continue reading →

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Count Zero

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

An almost certainly incomplete glossary of fictional concepts in William Gibson’s Count Zero that are never explained and that you are supposed to understand by context, which is inscrutable since all these future-terms are neologisms and none could even remotely … Continue reading →

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Martian Time-Slip

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

Martian Time-Slip, a sonnet: Canals lie void of water in the dust, This is the dream…to stand here and see this: See old men die wrapped up in tubes and rust. A home on Mars. Beyond it, space, abyss. Reality … Continue reading →

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is one of Dick’s great psychedelic-Gnostic novels. It takes place in a future where global warming has made living on Earth an impossible, expensive experiment in air-conditioning (people vacation in Antarctica, etc); space colonies, … Continue reading →

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Destination: Void

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Claire L. Evans

“Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground — and, in dreaming, evoke ever new dreams.” –Frank Herbert, from Destination: Void Let’s talk about consciousness. Exhibit A: Frank Herbert’s Destination: Void. Destination: Void is a claustrophobic parlor drama that … Continue reading →

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