A CASE FOR THE EDGE
I’LL BE REAL HONEST WITH you; we cooked up this issue as an excuse to talk about UFOs. Here are some names we considered: The UFO Issue. Invasions. Aliens. Weird Science. We soon hit some snags. Or one big snag, really. PopSci writes about things that exist, and it got really clear really quick that we couldn’t fill 100 pages with verifiable stories of unidentified flying objects and alien incursions. We drifted toward Invasions, but that quickly skewed biological and pushed out a lot of the cool space stuff we wanted to cover. Aliens gave us the same problem (ironic!), and Weird Science seemed too judgmental. Eventually, we settled on what you have in front of you: Out There. And whoa, was that ever a good choice. Keep reading, and you’ll soon be…