Gerry Canavan

Wednesday! * In Galileo's time, science was clashing with religion; today, Robinson believes, we're living in a "Galilean momen...

There's nothing I love better than interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson . TB: I understand that you live in a utopian community [called...

Saturday links. * Fox News caught stage-managing 9/12 protestors. * Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, speaking to fellow membe...

'We Are All Madoffs': David P. Barash writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the relationship of technological civilizat...

Ongoing projects update. * The Cultures of Recession graduate student conference (Nov. 20 & 21) is still accepting abstracts. We've...

Presenting Kim Stanley Robinson's favorite Mars novels .

Presenting a profile of the great Margaret Atwood . Her sensibilities were shaped by the fact that she was raised largely in the Canadian w...

Does the word postcapitalism look odd to you? It should, because you hardly ever see it. We have a blank spot in our vision of the future. P...

The first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's indispensable Mars Trilogy , which I've had occasion to talk about once or twice before,...

Earlier today I gave my talk at the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA conference, "Red Mars, Green Earth: Science Fiction and Ecological Futurit...

The "I Should Be Writing" podcast has an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson this week that's pretty good, though you have t...

Last one for awhile. * The UFO-themed art of Esther Pearl Wilson. Via io9 . * Bruce Sterling on geo-engineering: We are (lousy) climate en...

Malcolm Gladwell gets a smackdown from The Morning News. Whedon says more Dr. Horrible on the way . What happens when a space elevator bre...

Science fiction authors that lit geeks think it's cool to read . Surprisingly complete list from io9—off the top of my head it's ha...

'Is science fiction dying?' So asks New Scientist 's SF special . They direct the question to six writers of SF ranging from Ma...

Hugely cool news for S.F. fans: AMC (having already proved its chops with Mad Men ) is planning a series based on the Kim Stanley Robinson ...

EcoTuesday! * Kim Stanley Robinson, hero of the environment . * People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one lit...

We'll eventually be doing a full writeup for our Indy article on energy issues in the Triangle and North Carolina, but for now let me ...

io9's playing with great opening sentences from science fiction . (More at MeFi .) Contrary to the aesthetics of io9's list, it see...

We spent most of the morning out in Pittsboro with Lyle Estill at Piedmont Biofuels , one of the largest renewable energy projects on the ...