To be pitied is the writer whose satire of Utopian fantasies is mistaken for the actual thing. Even more to be pitied are the people who ta...

There are a handful of good reasons to read the utopian ideals of the past. One might simply be the aesthetics of Victorian retro-futurism,...

Unlike its neighbour to the south, Canada has no strong history of Scientific Romances. It has only really been in the last 40 years that t...

Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem , written in 1899 by Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, is a fascinating, prescient novella. In ...

It is not without truth, or reason, that Science Fiction has traditionally been a Western-dominated and male-dominated genre. Scientific Ro...

A group of explorers - all men - venture into the trackless expanse of jungle in search of a hidden mystery. Testing brawn and brain, they ...

After Uncle Tom's Cabin  and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ , journalist Edward Bellamy's speculative novel Looking Backward: 2000...

It is sometimes joked that the United States has never met a heresy that it didn't like. Constitutional barriers to the establishment o...