science fiction Watch the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine crew “sing” a Christmas carol Caroline Siede

happy mutants Photographing computers to show the art inside the black box Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Eleven, "Your Supervisor Disintegrates" — with a Gysin Dream Machine, an Altman Brain Machine, and Other Hallucinatory Hardware Ethan Persoff

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

occult Erik Davis talks Jack Parsons and "Babalon Rising" Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

Games The 20 games you shouldn't miss in 2016 Brandon Boyer

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek

world government Arthur C. Clarke and his vision of world government Stephen Baxter

economics Roddenberry's Star Trek was "above all, a critique of Robert Heinlein" Manu Saadia

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

music Panoramical will change the way you conceive of sound Leigh Alexander

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

A look through Star Trek’s Mirror Universe Lisa Granshaw

offworld The divine witches of cyberspace Leigh Alexander

A Conversation with Wil Wheaton Ethan Gilsdorf