Author: Slusser George Slusser

Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientific understanding of Mars, and the relationship between that understanding and the role of Mars in literature, the arts and popular culture. …

Gregory Benford is perhaps best known as the author of Benford’s law of controversy: "Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." That maxim is a quotati …

Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other typ …

With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or fu …