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...
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...
Aug 1, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
Just as Obi-Wan Kenobi presented a lightsaber to Luke Skywalker with the words, “Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough,” my father gave me two books when I turned 11: Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov and The Puppet Masters by Robert...