Aug 1, 2007 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
There are dozens of collectable card games in the world, but Ricardo Piper chose the pink ones. “I’ll play anything that catches my interest,” Piper says as he held his Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which happened to be enveloped in individual pink wrappers, a...
Feb 18, 2007 | New York Times
I DIDN’T marry my husband for his money, I swear. I married him because he is brilliant, funny, compassionate and handsome. He is also unlike any man I had ever dated. You see, he has a job. A man with a job wasn’t a situation I had much experience with. I was raised...
Jan 1, 2007 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
It is common but rarely remarked-upon knowledge that nine of the top ten highest-grossing Hollywood movies are science fiction or fantasy (unadjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, it’s six of the ten). [1] Less remarked-upon than that, and nonetheless...
Dec 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
When I attended Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in 1994, I was given two very specific pieces of writing advice from my teachers: 1) Write every day, and 2) Marry rich. Although the first piece of advice is obvious, the second addresses the hard reality, the open...
Nov 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
I’m a proselytizer. I like to spread the word: Science fiction, fantasy, and everything that lies in between and bleeds around the edges are great choices of reading material. Frustratingly, most book readers do not share my enthusiasm. As an experiment, last...
Oct 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
According to a 2002 National Endowment for the Arts study (1), 93 million Americans read novels and short stories. On any given day, people choose to read, or not to read, science fiction. And many of them don’t. Even in the 21st century, in an age of paid...
