Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest on the fifth of September, 1905, and by the time he died in London seventy-seven years later he had produced one of the strangest and most consequential literary lives…
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Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written in an unusual way—hand in hand with the film it accompanies. Beginning in 1964 from Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick…
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First published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel ever written and the first to win both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Set on the arid planet Arrakis, the only…
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When Little, Brown published Infinite Jest on February 1, 1996, it arrived already mythologized — a 1,079-page novel with nearly 400 endnotes, written by a thirty-three-year-old from central Illinois who had spent four years on…
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