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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Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was the most influential science communicator of the twentieth century—an astronomer and planetary scientist who did more than perhaps anyone to bring the wonder of the cosmos to a popular audience. A…
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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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Books from the library of Alexander Hamilton are scarce, and those signed by both Hamilton and his eldest son, Philip, are scarcer still. Both father and son died of wounds received in a duel—Philip in…
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The Jurassic Park logo, a black Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton set within a red-orange roundel, is one of the most recognizable images in film. Fewer people know that it did not begin in a Hollywood art…
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