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On This Day

Celebrating notable figures in science fiction and fantasy on their birthdays.

A Sober and Verbose Reflection on Robert A. Heinlein

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Octavia Butler Will Change the Way You Look at Genre Fiction

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Hard Concepts, Passionate Things: The Sublime Art of Maurice Sendak

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Jules Verne’s Love of Adventure Took Us From the Center of the Earth to the Surface of the Moon

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Lloyd Alexander’s Parents Never Read Books

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Edgar Allan Poe and the Cult of the Unusual

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Neil Gaiman Created a Pocket Universe For Each of Us

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Carl Sagan Lived His Life Believing Science Belonged to All of Us

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Bram Stoker Created a Horror Classic from the Anxieties of his Age

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Imaginative Anthropology: In Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin

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L’Esprit d’Escalier: A Tribute to Robert Jordan on his Birthday

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H.G. Wells Invented Everything You Love

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The Great Stephen King Birthday Cinema Celebration!

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George R. R. Martin: The Rock Star of Genre Fiction

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The Varied Life of Jack Vance

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James Tiptree, Jr.

What James Tiptree Jr. Can Teach Us About the Power of The SF Community

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Ray Bradbury: The Best Writing Teacher You Could Ever Have

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The Quiet Dedication and Bravery of Dr. Sally Ride

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Gene Wolfe: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

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More Than Thirty Years Later, Tom Doherty is Still Curating New Worlds

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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