Speculiction is on a one month hiatus.  Its estimable proprietor is traveling to the nether regions of the world, otherwise known as Patag...

As an eighth grader, I was required to watch the short film “Powers of Ten” ( here ).   Though the opening scenes and graphics are be...

All-stars selected from a larger squad of all-stars, it is perhaps inevitable that The Best of Analog is filled with high-caliber st...

What is vanilla?   It is a flavor of ice cream, a fall back when all else fails, and a dependable solution when nothing else is avail...

How many famous space captains are there in science fiction—the square-jawed heroic type?   Captain Kirk, Commander Riker, Captain Ro...

Only one of four other stories to accomplish the feat to date, John Varley’s 1984 novella Press Enter_ was winner of the Hugo, Nebul...

Despite being Iain M. Banks’ fifth published work of science fiction, Against a Dark Background has all the feel of being the author’...

Every reader an individual with specific tastes and preferences, it’s natural that what appeals to one may leave a bad taste in the m...

I suppose like many, my introduction to Timothy Zahn was his treatment of post- Return of the Jedi Star Wars novels.   The Thrawn Tr...

Though the count may not be high (five stories all told), Greg Egan’s Dark Integers and Other Stories packs a theoretical punch, qui...