On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Jamie Sorcher and Andrew Daniels dig into the hidden rules that may ...

In recent years, we’ve discovered so many astounding things about the universe, it’s almost impossible to choose just one to give the title “most astounding fact.” For starters, we know that our ...

In 1944, as the Second World War was about to enter its last year though no one could be sure of that or how it would turn out, a squad of zealous FBI agents stormed into the offices of a pulp ...

On the fourth floor of the MIT Student Center, roughly 60,000 books and thousands of magazines crowd the narrow, overstuffed shelves of the MIT Science Fiction Society Library. Mobiles and paper ...

In 1944 the science-fiction magazine Astounding published a short story called “Deadline.” In it, the author, Cleve Cartmill, described a superbomb very much like what was then being developed in New ...

Robert Kirkman is a writer of many talents. He arguably started the current zombie craze with his superbly-crafted series The Walking Dead. Then he took it to its utmost level of hilarity and ...

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Tracing the evolution of the mid-20th-century magazine whose pages gave rise to the genre of science fiction. By Alec Nevala-Lee Science fiction has become so central to our culture that it can be ...