Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone
The flood of Russian-to-English translations of science fiction in the 1960s and 70s can be explained by the USSR’s political and social liberalization at that time, as well as the rise in English-to-Russian translations of Anglo-American science fiction.
The Future of Flight Museum offers a look into the future of aviation in a way that will tempt any futurist or futurist in training.
One Hugo best poem finalist has been of particular interest to me because its presence inadvertently reveals one of the core historical touchstones of speculative poetry and reifies the core strength of one of the greatest forms of poetry from antiquity into the modern day.
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H. Beam Piper’s popular and beloved Little Fuzzy, published in 1962, still has a lot to say about how we measure the intelligence of the animals we share our planet with, while it also takes us on a rollicking good adventure.
For more than 30 years, Piroshky Piroshky has been supplying downtown denizens and tourists alike with both sweet and savory hand pies at Pike Place Market.
Last week, I promised an update about the progress Seattle Worldcon 2025 has made regarding our next steps related to remedying our mistakes related to the use of ChatGPT in panelist vetting. Much of this update can be summed up as “we’re waiting to hear back from the people we have invited to help.”
Let’s tackle the finalist list by putting some of these poems beside each other and asking meaningful questions about their themes and approaches in curious interconnecting ways.
American astronaut Alan Shepard could have become the first person in space, but NASA’s desire for just one more test flight delayed his launch, and he lost that historic position to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Discover how NASA’s Project Mercury helped to turn the age-old dream of human spaceflight into reality in 1961 as the Cold War Space Race started to heat up.