H.G. Wells

Reading Around: Fantasies, Tamed and Not

Elizabeth Hand's Errantry, Jon Peterson's history of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games

Two October Film Series Take on Life in the Last Days

Get your tickets for the end-times

Zeppelins, The Titanic, and the Future of Education: Studies in Crap Celebrates Progress With a 1913 Scientific American

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Scientific American Date: August 23, 1913 Discovered at: Antique shop Represe ... More >>

True Escapism in The Moon and the Sledgehammer

GO GREENE

WNYC invites you to its housewarming party

Road to Dystopia

Brave new worlds from We to V: A brief history of political future shocks

All's Wells That Ends Welles: Pal and Spiellberg Trade War Stories

Revival Tent: Preacher Lies to Choir, Choir Eats it Up

Dog Days

There's no place like ancient Rome—except for sweltering modern-day New York City

Armageddon It

Battlefield Earth: Spielberg’s traumatic blockbuster destroys the world in order to save it

Mystery Scientology Theater

They came from within: How War of the Worlds anticipated the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Foster Wallace Rewrites Mamet in Nerdy, Ingenious Time-Warp Fantasy

36-Hour Party People

Thinking outside the box: First-time filmmaker reinvents sci-fi, tampers with space-time

I, Narcissist

Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Science-Fiction Punks Rock Japan

A Passage on India

Tom Stoppard's 1995 Play Finally Sees a New York City Premiere, Courtesy of Alter Ego

Beach Reads

Sun Burnin', Page Turnin'

Pleased to Meat Me

Matthew Derby's Memories of Love

Horoscope

April Foolery

Been Having a Cruelest Month? Try Running Away.

Malcolm in the Muddle

What Time Is It There?

••• Cosmic Profs Beat The Clock

Brothers to Another Planet

NASA Tries to Launch Space-Science Dreams

Blinded Without Science

Being Edwin Abbott

••• How a 19th-century Mathematical Fiction Gave Us Our Point of View

Reed Loves Poe! Poe Not So Sure.

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

The DNA Bomb

Modified Crops are In the Crosshairs Now. You May Be Next.

Triumph of the Ill

Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven

Men Will Be Boys

Days of future past

I never promised you an orgasmatron