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Whether they owe money, their souls, or their futures, these characters are in desperate straits...
Five SFF Works About Trying to Escape Massive Debt
Whether they owe money, their souls, or their futures, these characters are in desperate straits...
Five SFF Works About Trying to Escape Massive Debt
Before isekai began ramming people into other dimensions, classic SFF tried out some other weird strategies...
Five Ways to Get Transported to Other Worlds That Don’t Involve Getting Hit by a Truck
Imagining life among the stars, from space stations in crisis to a planet-sized shopping mall...
Five Very Different Science Fictional Takes on Space Habitats
Safer Driving Through Science Fiction
Jun. 11th, 2026 12:56 pm
Surely, issues like traffic jams, speeding, and road rage can be solved through these creative strategies...
Safer Driving Through Science Fiction
We've all encountered this trope in post-apocalyptic fiction before. Let's give it a name...
Finally, a Unit of Measurement for a Certain Kind of Moral Depravity…
Whether actively harmful or simply inept, certain mentors seem to do more harm than good...
Five Terrible or Useless Mentors in SF and Fantasy
Helping young protagonists fulfill their destiny... if they can keep them alive long enough.
Five Mostly Helpful Mentors in SF and Fantasy
Here's to digging for treasure in the endless shelves of bookstores past and present…
Let’s Talk About Our Favorite Used Bookstores
When it comes to governing a generation ship, do you prefer the Watsonian or Doylist strategy?
Two Plot-Friendly Approaches to Generation Ships
Let's take a trip down the book-lined pathways of Memory Lane...
What Was the First Book You Bought From Each SF Publisher?
It's a case of limitations leading to more interesting plots and settings...
Is Science Fiction Better Off Without Torchships?
Looking for more romance in your SF? Look no further...
Five Science Fictional Solutions to Finding Your One True Love
Reaching the Moon is one thing; trying to settle and survive there is another matter...
Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon
This is how we imagined humanity's first trip to the moon before Apollo 11...
Five Vintage SF Works About Travelling to the Moon
History can teach us the most exciting ways to destroy fictional civilizations...
Seven Plot-Friendly Ways to Spur Societal Collapse
Strategies range from paraterraforming to radical cybernetic transformation...
Five Stories About Surviving and Adapting on Mars
Telling the truth can make you unpopular... or put you into real peril.
Five Stories About the Dangerous Business of Truth-Telling
Four New Superhero RPGs to Watch Out For
Mar. 20th, 2026 10:22 am
If you love dice-rolling and superheroes, you're in for a treat...
Four New Superhero RPGs to Watch Out For
Is the current location of our Solar System the reason no one's coming to visit?
One More Reason the Aliens Might Be Avoiding Us
