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Via swarajyamag.com by Aravindan Neelakandan Children read through blindfolds even as astonished onlookers, who are initially sceptical, observe intently. The blind-folded children not only can read but also can “see” the colours of things shown to...

Technological futurists and the people who love them have been talking for some time now about something called the Singularity, that moment in the (near?) future when computing technology will reach some critical mass and change everything forever in...

Beer Birthdays Samuel Whitbread II (1764) Jamie Emmerson (1963) Jeff Alworth (1967) Five Favorite Birthdays Jacob Bronowski; mathematician, historian, physicist, poet (1908) Cary Grant; actor (1904) A.A. Milne; writer, “Winnie the Pooh” (1842...

And so we come to the final Classics of Science Fiction volume, The Best of James Blish, published in August 1979. Final as in the last one published, not the last one we’ll talk about here. We’re at roughly the halfway point in terms...

During the Golden Age of Science Fiction, the Big Three Names were the three authors with the greatest prestige in the John W Campbell Jr stable of authors: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and one now is unfairly unrecognized, A.E. van Vogt. His obscurity...