Year-in-Review: 2022 Magazine Summary
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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews
A new anthology reveals the perils and rewards of philosophical fiction. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images Blending fiction and philosophy is more akin to chemistry than art: It involves creating a synthetic element that rarely occurs in nature in stable form. Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Ursula Le Guin have successfully married the two disciplines, but like many lab-created chemicals, works of philosophical fiction are often volatile and downright toxic. An extreme example can be found in the work of Ayn Rand, whose Objectivist novels can be considered a kind of radioactive waste—a hazar...