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Avatar and the Flight from Reality

James Bowman on James Cameron’s blockbuster and the mimetic tradition

The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks

Alan Jacobs on the “Culture” novels and the price of bliss

Plato in Space

Charles T. Rubin on science, politics, and faith in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

To Boldly Go

The End of Star Trek and Star Wars

Daedalus and Icarus Revisited

Charles T. Rubin on science, the future, and the Haldane-Russell debate

Methuselah and Us

Diana Schaub on “ageless bodies”

Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?

John Derbyshire on Verne’s lesser-known works

A Clone’s Lament

James Bowman on life as a useful pre-cadaver

Our Childless Dystopia

James Bowman on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, as novel and film

Immortality Lite

Ross Douthat on the sublime and the foolish in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain

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