Edmund Cartwright had just settled in for the morning. Or rather, he’d had a shower after staying up all night and was now back at his desk. He hadn’t bothered to dress, and was still in the oversized bathrobe he’d permanently borrowed from his suite at the Bellagio the last time he visited Las Vegas. [...]

Jane Mills smiled into the sea of flashing lights. Her famously plump lips pulled back to reveal gleaming teeth that shone with blinding whiteness. The breeze stirred as she glided down the red carpet, and she turned at just the right moment to toss her chestnut hair into a rippling wave as she looked over [...]

Today at the office someone asked me if I was looking forward to seeing the new Star Trek movie. My answer was immediate and definite: No. Why? Because Star Trek stopped being fun a long time ago, when it got all serious and stopped being about searching the universe looking for more places to have [...]

Reporters seem to serve as the dupes of the science fiction world. Why is it that the monster always eats the reporter first? Come to think of it, what has journalism got to do with sci-fi? It’s supposed to be about lasers and space monsters, right? The media are represented in various ways; as storytelling [...]