The Cosmic Codex

By Brian Scott Pauls

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CRITIQUE: “Children of Memory” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Oct 25, 2026
“Probability Amplitudes”: Why go to the trouble of writing a book?
Oct 17, 2026
What is dark energy?
Oct 10, 2026
INTERVIEW: Phil Drake, Director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction
Oct 03, 2026
A critique of Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin"
Sep 28, 2026
“Probability Amplitudes”: Editing in 2026
Sep 20, 2026
What in the worlds is dark matter?
Sep 13, 2026
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series wins the Hugo
Sep 03, 2026
A critique of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time”
Aug 27, 2026
“Probability Amplitudes”: Picking up where we left off
Aug 20, 2026
Where is all the antimatter?
Aug 14, 2026
A critique of "The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith," by Josephine Saxton
Aug 07, 2026
INTERVIEW: Kate Ristau, president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Jul 30, 2026
Back to our science fiction universe
Jul 23, 2026
INTERVIEW: Charles Tyra launches new science fiction magazine "Goblins & Galaxies"
May 01, 2025
"Probability Amplitudes": Incremental progress and a new prospective story
Apr 24, 2025
Audible's original adaptation of "1984" by George Orwell wins the Audie Award for best audio drama
Apr 19, 2025
How is gravity related to the other three fundamental forces?
Apr 03, 2025
Prospective stories for "Probability Amplitudes"
Mar 08, 2025
Daniel Suarez wins 2024 Prometheus Award for "Critical Mass"
Feb 20, 2025
"Probability Amplitudes" is back over the halfway mark
Feb 13, 2025
RIP Science Fiction Book Club (1953-2025)
Jan 31, 2025
A critique of Ned Beauman's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel "Venomous Lumpsucker"
Jan 23, 2025
From the depths of the sea to the depths of space
Jan 09, 2025
"Fire From Heaven"
Jan 02, 2025
Pioneers in an alien sky
Dec 28, 2024
Making the future better than it used to be
Nov 28, 2024
"Probability Amplitudes": Elements in flux
Nov 21, 2024
Terms of service
Nov 14, 2024
Heinlein saw this coming
Nov 05, 2024
Speaking for the dead
Oct 18, 2024
"Nasty, Brutish, and Short"
Oct 07, 2024
The next question
Sep 26, 2024
What sf authors does an sf legend recommend?
Sep 19, 2024
Against the empire
Sep 07, 2024
"Probability Amplitudes": Mapping the road ahead
Sep 02, 2024
Learn from SFWA Grand Master Samuel R. Delany
Aug 27, 2024
The neurotic robot and the teen hero
Aug 20, 2024
"Beside Still Waters" by Robert Sheckley
Aug 13, 2024
Club Codex (August 2024): "The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith" by Josephine Saxton
Aug 03, 2024
A tale of two masters
Jul 20, 2024
Club Codex (July 2024): "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman
Jul 16, 2024
"The Eyes Have It" by Philip K. Dick
Jul 13, 2024
Club Codex (July 2024): "Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion" by K. Tempest Bradford
Jul 09, 2024
A funny thing happened on the way to the past
Jun 27, 2024
Hell on wheels
Jun 21, 2024
Space adventure about contemporary problems
Jun 14, 2024
The thief who could topple an empire
May 26, 2024
Ninety degrees from everything
May 16, 2024
When minds collide
May 04, 2024
"Probability Amplitudes" has a new cover
Apr 26, 2024
An illustrious career in science fiction publishing
Apr 20, 2024
"Long Night On the Endless City"
Apr 03, 2024
Seeking a place to be free
Mar 29, 2024
A singular writer
Mar 23, 2024
Science fiction is literature
Mar 12, 2024
Science fiction, Nazis, and free speech (Part 3)
Mar 04, 2024
Club Codex (February 2024): "Cloud-Castles" by Dave Freer
Feb 19, 2024
Club Codex (January 2024): "The Extractionist" by Kimberly Unger
Jan 29, 2024
Science fiction, Nazis, and free speech (Part 2)
Jan 19, 2024
Science fiction, Nazis, and free speech (Part 1)
Jan 14, 2024
"In the Country of Free Men"
Jan 04, 2024
Keeping everything from happening at once
Dec 29, 2023
Club Codex 2024: The EASY book club for award-winning science fiction
Dec 22, 2023
Fading away
Dec 15, 2023
Club Codex (December 2023): “Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak” by Charlie Jane Anders
Dec 11, 2023
A cautionary fish tale
Dec 07, 2023
Worlds without end?
Nov 30, 2023
The fairy tale, the epic, the quest, and the cozy fantasy
Nov 23, 2023
Club Codex (November 2023): "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler
Nov 20, 2023
A larger pool of stories for "Probability Amplitudes"
Nov 16, 2023
The mating habits of North American monsters
Nov 12, 2023
In the midst of eternity
Oct 19, 2023
Club Codex (October 2023): "Sorrowland" by Rivers Solomon
Oct 09, 2023
“An Unexpected Grace”
Oct 05, 2023
Disturbing revelations at the bottom of the world
Sep 28, 2023
Before the moment of creation
Sep 21, 2023
Mysterious mutations, and the Californian Faust
Sep 14, 2023
"Probability Amplitudes" is growing
Sep 07, 2023
Club Codex (September 2023): “The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi
Aug 31, 2023
Of monsters, missions, and mollusks
Aug 25, 2023
Introducing Club Codex
Aug 17, 2023
The neighborhood space monster
Aug 10, 2023
The greatest unsolved mysteries of science (fiction)
Aug 04, 2023
“The Play of Light In the Present Moment”
Jun 10, 2023
A fragile peace
Jun 03, 2023
Download “An Illicit Mercy”
May 26, 2023
The empire, the invasion, and the master
May 19, 2023
Freelancer problems
May 15, 2023
Twenty years away…
May 08, 2023
Love and death in another world
Apr 27, 2023
"A Valid Exchange"
Apr 20, 2023
The enduring relevance of cyberpunk
Apr 13, 2023
A year for fantasy and representation
Apr 07, 2023
Interrogating the future
Apr 01, 2023
“Critical Impact Vulnerabilities”
Mar 26, 2023
The 21st century AI toolkit
Mar 19, 2023
The burning heart of empire
Mar 09, 2023
To myself in five years...
Mar 02, 2023
Alternate history, social change, and "false" reality
Feb 23, 2023
Hacking the brain and mind
Feb 16, 2023
"Chthonic Echoes"
Feb 09, 2023
"Little girls, like butterflies..."
Feb 02, 2023
Science fiction: A genre with a mission
Jan 26, 2023
"Probability Amplitudes" is in alpha
Dec 29, 2022
More than the tides can change
Dec 22, 2022
The cyborgs are among us
Dec 11, 2022
The unpublished stories of the artist formerly known as Isabel Fall
Aug 19, 2021
Nuclear thermal propulsion is back!
Aug 12, 2021