The Journal
Essays, reading guides, profiles and dispatches, written by hand, from one enthusiast to another. Where to start, what to read next, and why these overlooked classics still matter.
The genre's golden decade is the perfect front door, here's how to walk through it.
Read the piece →The moment we meet the other, for better or worse, is science fiction's oldest and sharpest thrill.
No time? The short story is science fiction's native form, and its best gateway.
The great opening lines of golden-age science fiction, and the quiet craft behind them.
Science fiction's darkest and most prescient mode, futures that went wrong, and what they were trying to tell us.
Empires, star-fleets and derring-do across the galaxy, the genre at its biggest and boldest.
Before the pulps, before the rockets: the 19th-century scientific romances where the genre began.
Long before he edited Analog or won six Hugos, Ben Bova was a young writer selling short stories to the magazines. A handful survive in the public domain, and they're free to read.