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Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Brian Doherty |
Robert Heinlein at 100 How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist America.  |
Wired January 18, 2008 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction.  |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960.  |
Salon.com November 16, 2000 Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads...  |
Salon.com February 27, 2002 Dorman Shindler |
The outsider Dan Simmons, whose novels range from science fiction to thrillers, talks about the feebleness of today's "serious" fiction and what we can all learn from Tom Wolfe...  |
Reason February 2005 |
Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.  |
Reason November 2000 Jesse Walker |
Anarchies, States, and Utopias Utopian fiction has a bad reputation, much of it well-deserved: Few genres are as congenial to humorless, didactic writing. But there are exceptions, many of which have issued from the pen of Ken MacLeod, a Scottish science-fiction writer...  |
Reason December 2008 Brian Doherty |
40 Years of Free Minds and Free Markets When reason began in 1968, it was just one of many mimeographed zines then pushing a mostly obscure political vision known as libertarianism. Forty years later, long after such titles as Living Free, Bull$heet, and others have fallen by the wayside, reason endures.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Zorpette & Ross |
The Books That Made A Difference Leading technologists name the novel that influenced them the most: Vinton Cerf, Google: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien... Donald Christiansen, President of Informatica: War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk... etc.  |
Salon.com December 10, 2001 Kera Bolonik |
How low can they go? Women's magazines, once the source of first-rate writing, now offer a steady diet of diets and product tie-ins to readers who get no respect...  |
Reason December 2008 Gillespie & Welch |
The Libertarian Moment Despite all leading indicators to the contrary, America is poised to enter a new age of freedom.  |
Reason July 2008 Cory Doctorow |
List: Revolution for Kids! These three political books have been recommended for young adults.  |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being.  |
Salon.com January 3, 2001 Charles Taylor |
The crime of my life Election and recession getting you down? Check out the mystery novels that got me through a very tough year...  |
Salon.com November 26, 2002 Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it.  |