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(0) The Saturday Scroll will be a short one. I am on my way to celebrate my sister-in-law’s birthday -- which will feel a bit incongruous because I’m still shocked and saddened by this first piece of news: (1) DEB GEISLER, FN (1957-2024). Dr. Deborah M. Geisler (Deb), chair of Noreascon 4, the 2004 Worldcon,

God always helps in times of trouble. So we will not be afraid even if the earth shakes, or the mountains fall into the sea.

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Online triathlon magazine with product reviews, a bike fit guide, training tips, and several regular columnists. The editor is Dan Empfield, the founder of Quintana Roo.

TributeAs our cars hurtle down Saddar’s congested Zaibunnisa Street, we seldom wonder how Karachi’s central thoroughfare got its name. Previously known as Elphinstone Street, this now-bustling boulevard is named after journalist, poet and short...

Notes and highlights from today in Tallahassee.

Your day is better when you start it with a first read on what's happening in Florida politics.

A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment 26/07/2021 (2017). Source: Netflix screenshot It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction. From mobile phones that speak to us (reminding Star Trek fans of tricorders), to genetically modified foods, to the Internet of Things and the promise of self-driving cars, people in industrialised nations live immersed in technology. Daily life can thus at times seem like visions f...

Richard Powers Overstory Trees are older, wiser, and more diverse than humans. The presence of a majestic tree can provide emotional continuity for generations of one family. They beckon young climbers. They even communicate with each other. In Powers Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a handful of different characters, from across time and geography, illuminate the ways in which we both cherish and destroy these towering giants. The stories eventually entwine in ways that might give "the tree-blin...

Exchanging Sixty Days for Seven Days In May Published: 4/7/2021 11:03:33 AM In 1962 Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II book, “Seven Days in May” debuted and went on to critical acclaim as a book and a movie. The premise of that book is similar to John P. O’Rourke’s contentions featured in the My Turn Opinion Page of Wednesday, March 31. The book’s plot centers on the discovery of a hawkish general’s coup plot a.k.a. “take appropriate action” to remove a pro-nuclear disbarm...