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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Athlete and fashion model Aimee Mullins, owner of more than a dozen pairs of the most fabulous prosthetic legs you can imagine.  Her superpowers.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Matthews' first novel, “Like We Care,” tells what happens when some teenagers simply stop spending money on all the stuff that’s marketed to them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Yann Martel's novel "Life of Pi" is an adventure story and also a meditation on religious faith.  He says a good religion is like a good story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sandra Luckow is a ventriloquist herself, who tells him Fleming about her relationship with her "carved figure" Juanito.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tamora Pierce tells Anne Strainchamps why she has devoted her career to creating strong female characters who challenge and exceed their societies' expectations of them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Vikram Chandra writes in English, the language of the colonizer, and faces accusations that he's not really an Indian writer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cats have convinced some of their owners that cats deserve legal citizenship.  Be afraid. Be very afraid.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

According to self-described "space dork" Andy Weir, he was just sitting around at home one day imagining a manned Mars mission — not with any goal in mind, but just as a thought experiment. Soon, he realized this would be a pretty good premise for a story. And boy was he right. His novel "The Martian" started as a series of blog posts and has become a blockbuster motion picture. In this interview, he reads excerpts from the novel and discusses the balance between pure fantasty and scientific accuracy in science fiction.

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