I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...

Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...

Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...

I have no clear memory of a time when I didn’t love books. I remember reading Green Eggs and Ham aloud, cover to cover, for my...

So Jed met Mrs. Landingham in prep school, where his dad was the headmaster and she was dad’s secretary. That makes them the oldest...

Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York...

What do we mean by nerd? There’s same ambiguity, I’m sure you’ll agree, in the application of the term in this diverse and culturally...

I open my eyes and it’s pitch-black. That’s truly fucking unnerving. I take a deep but silent breath and get a quick sense of my...

The deputy administrator motioned to her assistant, who hurried to her side as one wall of the office faded away, revealing an expansive...

Moonbase Alpha “They look like fine kids.” “They are. Our finest achievement.” “Whose are they?” “Sandra’s and Paul’s. Yes, the children...

"The Infernal Machine” “I am Delmer Powys Plebus Gwent of the planet Zemo. A man of considerable importance on that planet, perhaps not...

"The Troubled Spirit” “You're probing into areas of the mind we know very little about. Of course, that's what makes it so fascinating.”...

"Black Sun” “I'm a scientist. I don’t know anything about God.” ~Victor Bergman, to Koenig As Alpha prepares to pass through a black...

"Collision Course” “How could anyone possibly know that a planet on a collision course would not collide... but simply touch?” ~Koenig,...

“Dragon’s Domain” “John, if we ever do find a new place to live, and if we succeed, we’re going to need a whole new mythology.” “Tony...

Space: 1999 - "Breakaway” “As you know, our Moon has been blasted out of orbit. We have been completely cut off from planet Earth. As we...

It’s hard to recall the artistry and antics (it’s often hard to tell which is which) of Brit rocker Aldous Snow without also thinking of...

Dr. Tony Campolo has made a side career of speaking to multinational corporations, urging them to Do the Right Thing. And he puts...

Dr. Tony Campolo’s warning – that the Moral Majority would form an alliance with the political far Right and attempt to get a...

Our family’s celebration of the Nativity echoes as one of the happiest components of my otherwise emotionally patchwork childhood. Not so...