On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss the ...
In recent years, we’ve discovered so many astounding things about the universe, it’s almost impossible to choose just one to give the title “most astounding fact.” For starters, we know that our ...
In 1944 the science-fiction magazine Astounding published a short story called “Deadline.” In it, the author, Cleve Cartmill, described a superbomb very much like what was then being developed in New ...
On the fourth floor of the MIT Student Center, roughly 60,000 books and thousands of magazines crowd the narrow, overstuffed shelves of the MIT Science Fiction Society Library. Mobiles and paper ...
There’s an old joke about the golden age of science fiction being 12 — that is, the age when young people discover and then devour as much sf as they can find. Alec Nevala-Lee even quotes the remark ...