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...
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...
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...
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...
