Confronting a time mystery as a new ice age loomsClimate breakdown, and rising temperatures, are a fact of life. But in the 1970s, there was a subset of climate scientists who believed that global cooling was going to be the chall...

Another comic inferno from another stupid timelineBack in November, in episode 176, I took a look at The Reproductive System, the first novel by the US writer John Sladek, who produced almost all of his work while living ...

Corporate warfare becomes deadly as the state crumblesRobert Asprin was best known for the humorous fantasy series MythAdventure and for creating the influential Thieves' World series of anthologies which ran fro...

The definitive travel guide to a place that never existedLike J. G. Ballard's Crash - featured in episode 149 - Last Letters From Hav is another novel which might challenge or expand definitions of science...

The influential classic of enhanced intelligence with a breakneck paceAn early novel by Poul Anderson, Brain Wave (1954) is also a landmark science fiction story on the topic of intelligence enhancement. Unlik...