Speculative Nonfiction

The closer the Great Filter is to us (in terms of developmental stage) the more nervous we should be. If it's past us, we're doomed...

(Full disclosure: I know these guys and have sent reviews directly to them previously. This time I told them I'd post it on my blog, s...

NASA has announced that Curiosity and Perseverance have found the strongest-yet evidence of life on Mars: vivianite and greigite. On Ear...

Spoilers included. I had heard of this book years ago: a not quite alternate history of late medieval Europe. Its strong points come dow...

My friend (the one with the metal golf cart) is a son of a bitch and meets more certified metal gods while golfing than I ever have backstag...

In fiction, people write about things that interest them. This is a trivial observation, but there's more to it than that. Why make up...

We're more likely to find artifacts from technology-using aliens - self-reproducing (von Neumann) probes - rather than the aliens themse...

(Contains novel spoilers, Lynch movie spoilers, but not Villeneuve movie spoilers.) Dune has a lot of very loyal readers who rightly under...

Warning: spoilers. The Good Western readers will inevitably learn a lot about the Cultural Revolution period and the attitudes abou...

Periodically I re-write an argument about both the relevance of the simulation argument, as well as its poorly defined nature. This leads t...