by admin | Jul 22, 2025 | Book Reviews
David Baron’s The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Liverlight/Norton) is a thoroughly researched account of late 19th and early 20th-century fascination with the potential for intelligent life on Mars. The book...
by admin | Jul 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Outbound: Islands in the Void, written by Richard Anderson with illustrations by Tim Kummerow, is an ambitious science fiction novel of space colonization set in the year 2248. The book weaves multiple narratives, from the creation of a space “island” that provides a...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Mar 30, 2025 | Book Reviews
It’s a simple question, dramatized in countless books and movies: How should human beings treat extraterrestrial aliens upon contact? Should we assume that they are hostile and attack? Should we “come in peace” like so many sci-fi heroes? Professor Michael Bohlander,...