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h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition
"A collaborative guide, one that was written and kept up to date by the people who used it, in real time, might be a neat idea. I just didn't really realise that such a thing might be possible in my lifetime or how powerful such a thing might be." - Douglas Adams
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For The First Time, Physicists Have Controlled The Interaction of Time Crystals
The existence of time crystals - a particularly fascinating state of matter - was only confirmed a few short years ago, but physicists have already made a pretty major breakthrough: they have induced and observed an interaction between two time crystals.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer whose stories and novels told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South, has died. She was...
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Extreme Steampunk Beyond the Grave Terminal Techno Taxidermy
Possibly the coolest creepiest Steampunk taxidermy creatures you will ever behold...
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FOUNDATION Official Trailer (2021) Jared Harris, Sci-Fi Series
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10 online distractions you may not have discovered during social distancing
Tired of the news cycle? Got you depressed? Here's better things to capture your time.
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NK Jemisin: 'It’s easier to get a book set in black Africa published if you're white'
The three-time Hugo award winner is one of the biggest names in modern scifi. She talks about overcoming racism to rewrite the future
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A Black Hole Spewed the Ingredients for Life Across the Galaxy, Study Suggests
When the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy explodes, it likely eviscerates any life close to it. But over longer distances, these bursts of radiation may help life emerge.
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Space Unicorn Blues - TJ Berry
Space opera fantasy! Wow! Humanity joining the intergalactic community has been a disaster for Bala, the magical creatures of the galaxy: they’ve been exploited, enslaved and ground down for parts. Now the Century Summit is approaching, when humans will be judged by godlike aliens.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a Forgotten Masterpiece - The Breakdown
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The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix
Sci-fi movies available to stream on Netflix include classics like Forbidden Planet, indie gems like Under the Skin and a couple of Star Wars films.
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Brian Taylor to Adapt Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy as a TV Show
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's crazed, over-the-top, post-modern sci-fi satire, the Illuminatus! trilogy is slated to become a TV series.
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The Resurrection of the Greatest Sci-Fi Writer You’ve Never Read
He was beloved by Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan, and so good that he won a World Fantasy Award for a Christmas card. How did John M. Ford disappear?
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How Aldous Huxley prophesied the Big Data nightmare
In 1958 the journalist Mike Wallace interviewed Aldous Huxley, the British author best known for writing "Brave New World." This dystopian sci-fi novel, published in 1932, takes place in the fictional and future World State society, where human beings are produced in laboratories and assigned to different classes based on their intelligence and physical gifts.
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'Sci-fi makes you stupid' study refuted by scientists behind original research
After finding readers devoted less attention to science fiction than literary fiction, researchers say quality determines comprehension – not genre
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Review: James Gray’s Thoughtful Space-Faring Odyssey, Ad Astra, Is A Sci-Fi Heart of Darkness
*** Warning the following review contains certain spoilers for Ad Astra *** James Gray is a filmmaker known for intimate human dramas like We Own the Night, Two Lovers, and The Immigrant. After nearly three decades of writing and directing movies in this vein, he finally took a crack at a different genre, science fiction, with Ad Astra, which opens in theaters this Friday. Not only did he crush a sci-fi venture on his first try, but the movie (whose title is Latin for “to the stars”) also cements Gray as one of Hollywood’s most interesting storytellers of the last 25 years.
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Jonathan Frakes Had Anxiety Attacks Over His Return to Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek: Picard isn’t just catching us up with what Jean-Luc has been up to in the years since we last saw him onscreen, but a cavalcade of Trek characters—among them the namesake of Picard’s new pupper and former second-in-command of the Enterprise, Will Riker. But returning to his iconic role caused a lot of stress for Jonathan Frakes.
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Samuel Delany on Capitalism, Racism, and Science Fiction
Samuel Delany was 20 when his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, appeared. That was in 1962, and by 1967–69 (when “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” and “Aye, and Gomorrah …” nabbed Hugo and Nebula awards), he was a luminary of American science fiction and fantasy.
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Here are the Coolest Science Fiction Weapons of All Time, Ranked
It's a tough multiverse. You gotta defend yourself.
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The Doctors of Time & Their Most Memorable Quotes
All the Doctors and all their memorable quotes
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