pielberg has never seen a UFO himself, but he now finds the testimony sufficiently compelling to believe those who claim to have encountered them.

What can Cormac McCarthy's trout teach us about writing science fiction? From Philip K. Dick's electric sheep to the mysteries of Mars, Jeremy Clift explores the challenge of bringing worlds we've never experienced vividly to life.

For years we have been told that physical books are on their way out. First electronic books would replace them. Then smartphones would destroy our attention spans. Then streaming entertainment would make reading increasingly marginal. None of those technologies has been insignificant. The way we discover, buy, and read books has certainly changed. But at Worldcon hundreds of people were carrying books around, sometimes heavy ones, to get them signed by authors..