What's New

May 2:

• Is it Ever OK to Kill a Person? from issue #11
  • editorial about the morality of killing someone who wants to kill or harm you or someone you love

April 25:

• sadly, another death to report -- Ken Rand (author of three stories in Challenging Destiny) has died

April 5:

• What Did the Natives Ever Do For Us? from issue #9
  • editorial about how the Natives contributed to North American society
• What Could Be Better Than Civilization? from issue #10
  • editorial about what's wrong with our culture and how to fix it

February 15:

• Intelligence is Wrong, from issue #8
  • editorial about the usefulness of intelligence

February 1:

• Is Technology the Problem or the Solution? from issue #7
  • editorial about our blind acceptance of technology

January 11:

• Let's Start Our Own Cult, from issue #6
  • philosophical editorial about the soul

January 4:

• Hugh Cook (author of nine stories in Challenging Destiny) has died -- our thoughts are with his family and friends
• So What If Apes Can Use Language? from issue #5
  • editorial about how we can communicate with great apes

December 21:

• Everything is Permanent, from issue #4
  • editorial about the philosophy of time

November 23:

• What Can We Learn From Star Trek? from issue #3
  • editorial about what's good and bad about the future depicted in Star Trek

October 20:

• Towards an Ethics of Argument, from issue #2
  • editorial examining a common method of argument, and the concept of truth

October 16:

• What's Wrong With the World Today? from issue #1
  • editorial about the kinds of stories we want, destiny, good news and bad news, and cloning

October 15:

• Where Are They Now? from issue #25
  • updates on all the authors we've interviewed from issue #3 to issue #24, most written by the authors themselves

September 25:

• "Abigail & Chang" by Harvey Welles & Philip Raines (from issue #24) was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novelette

September 19:

• link to a review of issue #25, from Paul J. Iutzi on The Fix

May 20:

• Hayden Trenholm's "Like Water in the Desert" (from issue #24) won the 2008 Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English

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