Science fiction has always been the genre where we test-drive uncomfortable futures before they arrive. Which makes it oddly fitting that the Science Fiction Writers Association now finds itself caught […]
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The Strange Power of Mathematics In 1960, the physicist Eugene Wigner published a thought-provoking essay titled The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. In it, he explored a
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In my novel Infernum, the crew of the Avenger are handed a one-way mission to the center of our galaxy. While we don’t have the technology to make such a
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