Bangs & Whimpers: A Look at the Top Five Doomsday Scenarios

Aug 1, 2010 | Lightspeed Magazine

by CAROL PINCHEFSKY PUBLISHED IN AUG. 2010 (ISSUE 3) | 1753 WORDS From 1945 to 1991, Americans woke up every morning to coffee, cereal, and the threat of a Ruskie-style, nuclear holocaust. But ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the only thing we’ve had to fear...

Top Five Time Travel Nightmares

Jul 1, 2010 | Lightspeed Magazine

Time travel is currently only a thought experiment, but if you have to dream, dream big. Who hasn’t fantasized about going back in time to choose the winning lottery numbers, or to kill Hitler, or to say no to the prom date who drenched you in pig’s blood? There ought...

Top Ten Reasons Why Uplifted Animals Don’t Make Good Pets

Jun 1, 2010 | Lightspeed Magazine

by CAROL PINCHEFSKY PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2010 (ISSUE 1) | 238 WORDS From Cordwainer Smith’s “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” to the Pern series to Alan Dean Foster’s Taken trilogy, animals gifted with genetically-enhanced intelligence have been, and still are, a popular...

4 diet programs for the Mac

Aug 7, 2008 | Maclife

If you’re like me and millions of other Americans, you have a few extra pounds you’d like to shed. If you’re also like me, you have a Macintosh. I thought, why not combine the two and take the cutting-edge power of computer science and apply it to my ever-expanding...

How Do Mixed Marriages Work? When fans marry non-fans (and even fans of different fandoms)

Apr 1, 2008 | Intergalactic Medicine Show

My husband and I are both science fiction fans, which means we had a great deal in common even before we met. His book collection mirrors my own, and he understands my ridiculous references like, “All tapes turn into Best of Queen” and someone has “a...

FCC Plans to Investigate Wireless Spectrum Auction

Mar 21, 2008 | eWeek

9/11 Commission joins the chorus of observers calling the auction results out of key. The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that a contractor tried to extort potential bidders for a block of the spectrum set aside for emergency responders,...