Milicent Patrick: Disney Magic to Monster Mayhem
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re producing a two-part series about two visionary and trailblazing artists: Mary Blair and Milicent Patrick. They went to the same art school. They…
No, We Don’t Live in a F—ing Simulation!
It's a fun thought experiment: what if the universe is a simulation, and nothing around us is real? But lately, some of the most powerful people in tech (and politics)…
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
12 Monkeys
I just re-watched 12 Monkeys recently. it reads so differently now, post 9/11, in the middle of an actual pandemic, on the verge of another one. In the middle of…
“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock.
An interview Diane did a few months before her death:It couldn’t be done, said the others. I don’t know…. But one could give it the ol’ college try. Thinking the…
Narrating Audiobooks From Other Worlds
The field of audiobooks has exploded since the introduction of mp3 players, and it continues to expand. But it takes a unique set of skills to voice audiobooks in sci-fi…
random number generators
anxiously rolling a handful of dice and starting to sweat.
Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024
Download Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024 – PDF Hexagon Issue 16 / Spring 2024 – EPUB Contents “A Mnemosurgeon’s Tale” – by Melissa Ridley Elmes (3490 words) “Matter of…
African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the…
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a long-running series of movies,…