I had no idea that The New Yorker was doing a science fiction issue until I received my weekly subscriber update in my inbox this morning, but I’m excited to check it out. It features fiction by Jennifer Egan (whose A Visit from the Goon Squad is well worth your time) and Jonathan Lethem, as well longform pieces on Doctor Who and aliens in movies. Even the cover–an alien, a robot, and a ray-gun wielding human crashing a New York dinner party–is a clever homage to the genre and something I would consider framing. Either editor-in-chief David Remnick is a huge geek or the geeks on his staff browbeated him into greenlighting this issue. Either way, it’s further proof of how thoroughly geek culture has influenced mainstream taste.
A video promo of the issue can be found here.
