“When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA’s plan was to continue manned lunar missions through Apollo 20. But history…
Total inversion
“Talk of the changing relationship between the speculative genres and the mainstream surely predated Bruce Sterling’s now-canonical 1989 essay on…
Vacant stare
“One of the odder, more complicated moments in the history of architectural symbolism will arrive Monday with the formal opening…
Historic home of the future
A 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics has an article about Robert Heinlein’s 1,150-square-foot home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which he…
Nothing here now but the recordings
Why closed-down stores? The idea went back to 2005 when I drove weekly past a large closed supermarket on the…
A Cartographic Anomaly
Speed, immensity, dreaming
“George Lucas, according to his biographer, Dale Pollock, wanted to recapature the romance of space that had been kindled in…
The Rapture of Science
Sydney-based artist Sam Leach has curated Extropians, a new show at Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art. The exhibitions brings together…
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