Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee was a 2019 Hugo Award finalist for Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction(Dey Street, 2018), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Economist. He is currently at work on a biography of the architectural designer Buckminster Fuller.

Isaac Asimov. Photo by Jay Kay Klein, courtesy Regents of the University of California

Arts & Culture

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

The science fiction author Isaac Asimov engaged in forms of unwanted touching with countless women. It set the tone for the entire genre.

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Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

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Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

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Alec Nevala-Lee

Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

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