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What happens when a country can fight without asking its citizens to fight? John Severini’s article “War by Other Means” argues that drones, artificial intelligence, and automation may shift the foundation of military power. States may need fewer soldiers, but will depend more heavily on private firms that design, code, manufacture, repair, and operate the […]
What do a human genome and an artificial intelligence model have in common? At first glance, almost nothing. DNA is made of four chemical letters—A, T, G, and C—while a large language model is built from vast arrays of numerical weights. One helped create every living person on Earth; the other can write poems, solve […]
Science fiction did not appear all at once. Like the novel itself, it emerged through centuries of storytelling, satire, scientific curiosity, and imaginative leaps into the unknown. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818, is traditionally credited as the first true science fiction novel. Its great innovation was not merely the creation […]
The Year Fantasy and Sci-Fi Hit the Refresh Button Let’s rewind to 2015 — a year that dropped two absolute bangers into the SFF universe and reshaped how we think about magic, monsters, and the end of the world. First up: N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, which cracked open the fantasy genre like the planet […]
The Rosetta Stone and Sci-Fi’s Quest for Communication The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799, was pivotal in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, thanks to its inscriptions in Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic scripts. This breakthrough unlocked ancient Egyptian culture and history. In science fiction, the theme of deciphering alien languages mirrors this monumental achievement. In Samuel R. Delany’s […]
Fantasy readers know one thing for certain—this genre never stops evolving. Every year, we get new worlds to explore, new magic systems to obsess over, and new characters to either fall in love with or scream at in frustration. And 2014? That year brought us some truly legendary additions to our bookshelves. One of the […]