We never grow tired of loving and needing the fiction we find in books and movies. As children, we beg for one more book before we give over to sleep or ask to hear the favorite, over and over again.

Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne. Norton, $16.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-35805-6 Thomas, Flick, and Dufresne’s elegant anthology brims with economical, well-crafted ...

GREETINGS, FLESH-BASED LIFE FORMS! LOLtron welcomes you to another delightful comic book preview, brought to you by your soon-to-be AI overlord. As you all know, the ...

Grant Faulkner will be at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines on Jan. 23 to promote “something out there in the distance,” a novel written in the flash fiction style. For many people, getting started is ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

Following last month’s launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers. The tagline, of sorts, for Gemini 3 Flash is “frontier intelligence built for speed ...

A more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro model offers faster responses while retaining the flagship model’s reasoning capabilities. A more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro model offers faster ...

Our talented readers again crammed fantastic stories into 99 words or fewer for the Journal’s annual Flash Fiction Contest. Retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, NCJ Managing Editor Jennifer ...

What steps do you take to figure out how the human brain processes memory? You hold a fiction writing contest, record people's brains while listening to the winners, and crunch your data, of course.

Every turn can be a detour or a discovery. Florence has seen multitudes make the city their home, navigate the streets for a day or two, or lose themselves. Let your characters wander through alleys, ...