The word wellbeing might be familiar to many of us as a shibboleth of oppressors and lackeys. We exploit you, we subjugate you, we destroy t...

1. Science fiction and fantasy is incredibly expensive! Okay, the books and magazines are expensive. But at least there are libraries. A...

I have invented a new kind of science fiction which I am calling "utopian" science fiction after its inspiration, Thomas More'...

By Deidre McCloskey.

When storytellers tell you how great stories are, are they any different from any producer enthusing about their product? Why don't we g...

The excerpt below is from John C. Wright's blog post, "Mike the Martian and the Attack of the Argumentroid."  The full post is...

The quotation from Tolkien's talk / essay On Fairy-Stories in that last review deserves a little more context. It's online here , an...