The Future Tastes Like ...

When people ask “Where do your ideas come from?” it’s easy to say “everywhere”, but sometimes it’s here, specifically. Wrapping a science fiction story around something like this is a no-brainer: Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can...

James Cameron’s A...

Avatar has taken a lot of heat because the story is relatively simplistic, and it’s fair to say that you won’t be surprised by the events as they unfold. But let’s give credit where credit is due: The story is, for the most part, motivated by character, even if that happens in much...

Lou Anders on Technolog...

Lou Anders is the Editorial Director of Pyr, one of the hottest sci-fi and fantasy book imprints.  It was a conversation I had with him at Orycon that inspired me to ask whether Fantasy is the New Science Fiction a few weeks back. Here he is talking to Chip Design magazine about the...

Science Fiction and The...

Whether it turns out to be a blockbuster or a bomb (I’m betting on it hitting big), there’s no doubt that next week’s release of Avatar is the last major Science Fiction event of the year in a year that has already had an amazing number of “important” genre films, whether...