Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Playing With a Full Deck Wild Cards Comes to Roleplaying by John J. Miller (Roleplayer, October 1989). A review of Wild Cards XVI: Deuces Down (iBooks, 2002) and a brief overview of the entire series (scroll down).

Frederic Brown (1906-72): Fredric Brown was a man who hated to write, but absolutely loved putting words together. It’s a paradox he would have probably enjoyed.

Bibliography, collections and anthologies, and the complete text of his short-short The End.

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that’s the hardest part — convincing everybody you’re a genius.

— Fredric Brown

A series of articles in Slate about human enhancement, by By David Plotz. So far he’s looked at strength and endurance, vision and sleep.