Author Octavia butler has won science fiction's two highest honors, the nebula award and the hugo award. Butler is one of the few african american women in the genre. Her new novel, parable of the sower was said to be grim im all the things that i can see going wrong now. The people lucky enough to still have houses have to build walls to protect themselves against crazy and desperate street people.
When it comes to Elon Musk, it can be hard to separate the man from the myth. But in her new podcast, “The Evening Rocket,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore manages to see through Musk’s mystique, explain his worldview, and decipher his visions of the future by going back to the sci-fi stories he grew up on — stories, Lepore says, that Musk sometimes misread.