Pluto: a world more fascinating than we’d hoped for
Pluto and its largest moon Charon proved to be extremely interesting objects during the recent New Horizons flyby. While the spacecraft is on its way further in...
Category: Nonfiction
Turning the microscope back on us from a distance
It’s been a while since I posted an interview here, however, it would be a loss if interviews with interesting people only appeared in an issue of a print...
News from Academia Film Olomouc & more
Well, AFO turned out great despite some small organizational problems. The films and talks were all interesting. I liked Pohyby (Movements) and Kmeny: Hackeři (...
“I’d love to see first contact with an alien civilization!”
It’s been a while since I posted snippets from interviews I had done for XB-1 here but I can finally share another short excerpt – with the wonderfu...
Darkest humor in the new issue of XB-1
The February issue of XB-1 is coming soon a it features the second part of Equoid (Charles Stross), Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma (Alex Shvartsman) and What Doc...
Review of Upgraded at Fantasy Scroll
I’ve reviewed Neil Clarke’s cyborg anthology UPGRADED for Fantasy Scroll Magazine; the review can be found here in the new issue of the magazine. Cz...
Interview with Peter Watts
My interview with Peter Watts was published last Friday in Clarkesworld. Be sure to check it out; Watts writes really brilliant, thrilling SF full of very inter...
“If we could edit our lives we would not make them better…”
In an interview for XB-1 magazine, Adam-Troy Castro, a remarkable SF author known especially for his Andrea Cort detective SF stories, revealed what he’d ...
A new article: Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold
These places never see sunlight, are buried deep under thick ice crusts and warmed mostly by radioactive decay and tidal forces: subsurface oceans of celestial ...
Erasing boundaries and distances
I’m bringing you another snippet from interviews I do for XB-1, this time with a notable Czech SF editor Martin Šust. Martin Šust is well-known as the edi...
