Allan Dyen-Shapiro

In Margaret Atwood's dystopian science fiction novel Oryx and Crake, in a moment meant to spark revulsion, the protagonist chows down on...

I recently had the opportunity to freeload at ICFA (International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts). By freeloading, I mean...

"This is what America sounds like." I heard the line last weekend at a dinner theater that found a way to open near my home. All the...

It's dropped off the headlines, but I would still maintain that the central fault line in US politics is over abortion. With the climate...

David was my favorite character from the Canadian-migrated-to-Netflix science-fiction TV show Travelers. He begins the show as Marcy's...

The Wall Street Journal published an editorial recently, criticizing the new First Lady for continuing to go by Dr. Jill Biden rather...

The analysts bemoan their epiphany that half of America was willing to vote for a man with fascist leanings. In their eyes, voting for a...

Although the pandemic has been awful in many ways and killed far too many—and I would never dare to minimize this tragedy—it has led to...

I didn't start reading science fiction until I was in my late thirties. Sure, I'd encountered some of the classics in high school English...

Identity—it's who you are—partially born into, partly chosen, and in part forced upon you. It was the subject of two different stories I...

"Kung flu," "the Chinese virus," "enormous evidence" that the coronavirus outbreak originated in a Chinese biotech lab—these phrases used...

Like many of you who have been sheltering-in-place, with my now-virtual day job having settled down a bit, I've been catching up on TV...

The investigation, reported in this Washington Post article, has revealed what went wrong with testing for the coronavirus in the US. The...

Science Magazine today came out with a news story about researchers having to shut down their labs because of COVID-19-related...

When I began writing science fiction just before the beginning of this last decade, I had a mission. It was related to the mission that...

With the Emmys this show has garnered, it’s safe to say I’m not alone is judging it the best science fiction television show in recent...

The flashy headline attracted my attention: a new energy source from rivers meeting the oceans. Blue membranes. I liked the name....

I admit it—I like ridiculous titles. The Internet has been atwitter (pun intended) with a hullaballoo that seems to me will be a tempest...

By 2050, half of the world’s arable land will be salt-stressed due to rising sea levels. Although transgenic tomatoes that are more...

Yesterday’s Climate Change Town Hall uncovered rifts between the Democratic Presidential candidates. On the one extreme, Cory Booker...