By: Joshua Glenn

Fritz Leiber’s SF satire The Silver Eggheads first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. In it, he imagined a future world in which books — cranked out at the rate […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Big X (1959), by Hank Searls.

By: Joshua Glenn

The Game of X (1965), by Robert Sheckley.

By: Joshua Glenn

How they smoked during the Radium Age.

By: Joshua Glenn

Venus Plus X (1960), by Theodore Sturgeon.

By: Joshua Glenn

X (1963), adapted by Eunice Sudak from the 1963 movie X.

By: Joshua Glenn

Tomorrow Plus X (1957 edition), by Wilson Tucker.

By: Joshua Glenn

Egghead as “last American virgin” type

By: Joshua Glenn

Batman and Robin vs. a giant pipe!

By: HILOBROW

“Life is a kind of Chess.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Atomic Chess is won by causing the explosion of the opposing king.

By: Joshua Glenn

Beast of prey + monk = chess­master

By: Joshua Glenn

HiLo hooker books for the “Hooker Booker”

By: Joshua Glenn

Precisely how much more brightly than a normal sparkle does a divine sparkle shine?

By: Joshua Glenn

Welcome to the McLuhan Dome! Tonight: “hot” print vs. “cool” comic book.