A lost tale reconstructed from the Byzantine chronicle of 1453 by Ádám Gerencsér A portent of imminent defeat hung heavily in the
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This is probably the last post for Sci Phi Journal. It has been a pleasure to run SPJ, and I have been
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“Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because
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One of Heinlein’s early novels, Methuselah’s Children, is the first to introduce his “Future History,” a series of interrelated books and stories
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“I’m already locked inside a trillion cells. What difference does one more make?” He shouted this from his cage, the words slipping
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a
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I. No one will know that I’m leaving, just that I’m gone. I carry the final box from my office to my
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Orson Scott Card’s Ender Saga may be one of the most varied book series written to date. The first in the series,
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The host returned to consciousness in a flutter of dark eyelashes and dilation of pupils. Were it not for the familiar sound
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“God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent — it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of
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by Prof. Joseph Heath Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book
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I know exactly what Socrates meant and he fucking meant it literally. It’s just that most people aren’t smart enough, or not
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Before the quantum revolution, the scientific depiction of the natural world was a deterministic one, i.e., once all the initial parameters of
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Commander Zuniga’s mouth hung open. “I’m sorry, could you repeat that?” “We do not believe in humans. It is an old superstition,
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If I were to say to you that the extinction of feudalism led to the pandemic of the Bubonic Plague, you would
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Unfriending and clicking on ‘block sender’ doesn’t work on journalists; Yolanda should have known that. I soon found out she’d run from
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Originally serialized in Astounding Magazine during the 1940s, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is one of his most widely known works. Yet, many
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Today's Sci Phi Journal takes the unusual step of publishing two radically different stories alongside each other. We presented them together
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