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Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Brian Doherty |
Robert Heinlein at 100 How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist America. |
Salon.com April 3, 2002 Helen Macleod |
Mirror, mirror Alas, now even the great Ian McEwan has succumbed to the dreary trend of writers writing novels about writers writing novels... |
Salon.com June 5, 2001 Andrew O'Hehir |
A curiously very great book Although its popularity is unparalleled, intellectuals still question the literary stature of "The Lord of the Rings." Now, one scholar defends it as a modern masterpiece. (Second of two parts.) |
Reason December 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction. |
Reason May 2007 Mike Godwin |
Superhuman Imagination Mathematician, computer scientist, and novelist Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and a "convergence" of technological trends that threaten to drastically limit individual freedom. |
Salon.com February 27, 2002 Dorman Shindler |
The outsider Dan Simmons, whose novels range from science fiction to thrillers, talks about the feebleness of today's "serious" fiction and what we can all learn from Tom Wolfe... |
Chemistry World September 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity |
Salon.com May 28, 2002 Tom Bissell |
I'd prefer not to My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read? |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Charles Taylor |
Show and tell Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film... |
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 G. Pascal Zachary |
Unleash Your Inner Asimov Write a story, make a video, invent the Next Big Thing. A small but growing cadre of savvy technologists argue that, at least in measured doses, encounters with imaginary worlds and futuristic devices could have a decisive influence on innovation. |
Wired January 18, 2008 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction. |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Salon's critics |
What to read: July fiction Novels of love and evil, from lesbian Victoriana to deft, Vonnegut-style humor and gritty Indian realism. |
Salon.com March 12, 2002 Charles Taylor |
A conversation with Jonathan Coe The author of "The Rotters' Club" talks about "pleasuring the reader," Henry Fielding, Dickens, Angus Wilson and Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon... |
Salon.com November 26, 2002 Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it. |
Salon.com September 7, 2001 Laura Miller |
Only correct Jonathan Franzen talks about the medicalization of love and loss, the charms of Narnia and living in an America where no one grows up... |
Mother Jones December 2000 Arthur I. Blaustein |
Novel Gifts for the Holidays A veteran organizer and University of California professor Arthur Blaustein recommends fiction titles to challenge the imagination, open the mind, and (just maybe) change the world. |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 David Galef |
Technical difficulties What if the damsel in distress had a cellphone or Romeo had a pager? Modern gizmos make plotting a nightmare for writers... |
AskMen.com February 15, 2015 Emma Overton |
Famous Literary Rejections Some of the greatest authors were rejected endlessly, so don't give up. |
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 David Gerrold |
The Science Fiction Files What movies may have influenced the design of our current technology. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Prachi Patel-Predd |
A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career. |