"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

I grew up speaking mostly Chinese at home. When the time came for me to start school, my parents were very concerned about my subpar English. They decided to help me improve by speaking more of the ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

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The first principle of the medical doctor’s Hippocratic oath is: above all, do no harm. And I think that applies to the fiction writer, too, presuming his subject is worthy of such caution. In fact, ...

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The award-winning author David Mitchell is writing a new short story, and you can read his work-in-progress on Twitter. Over the past four days, Mitchell has intermittently posted tweets from the ...

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