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Sci-fi Fantasy Adventure Elex Launches Tomorrow on PS4
Science-Fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world – a mix of genres, a curse or a blessing? In celebration of tomorrow’s PS4 release of Elex – and since the final days of a project always make us a little emotional – we thought we’d look back at the early days of the project and give you a little insight into the thoughts and ideas that went into the design of Piranha Bytes’ biggest project to date.
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Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide
Didn’t get the reference? The A.V. Club is here to help, picking apart the network of literary references and allusions that make up the ambitious alternate-future reality of Blade Runner 2049. The cyberpunk novelist William Gibson once praised the original Blade Runner’s intoxicating mix of quotations and designs as “a lyrical sort of information sickness”; while the sequel never escapes the original’s long shadow, it’s a fascinating film in its own right.
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Dystopian Tropes that Might be Beneficial
Dystopian Cliches Dumb People Make Seem Utopian. While the most honest system humanity has come up with so far, democracy has lied to us all
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Is Sci-Fi a Religious Experience? Adam Savage Thinks So
The one-time 'MythBusters' host has some ideas about just how transcendental science fiction can be.
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How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientific Discovery
Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course. That's what it would do.” This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it. (That's gravity for you; relativity is superweird.) In theory it was once a star, but instead of fading or exploding, it collapsed like a failed soufflé into a tiny point of inescapable singularity. A glowing ring orbiting the spheroidal maelstrom seems to curve over the top and below the bottom simultaneously.
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle Review (2017, directed by Matthew Vaughn)
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Sci-Fi novel envisions corporatocracy in a climate-changed future
In Tal Klein’s new novel, The Punch Escrow, humans have successfully tackled disease and climate change, but powerful corporations control everything.
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The Ultimate Sci-Fi Starships Quiz
If you know your USS Enterprises and think you're a master of all things Dr. Who, then jump into our quiz about sci-fi series and fictional spaceships and show us your chops.
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If you read one sci-fi series this year, it should be The Broken Earth
The haunting trilogy by N.K. Jemisin won Hugo Awards two years running and changed sci-fi.
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Star Sailors by James McNaughton
Love! Revolution! Aliens! Hokitika!
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25 of the Scariest Dystopian Realities
September 2017 is Syfy’s 25th anniversary, so we’re using it as an excuse to look back and celebrate the last 25 years of ALL science fiction, fantasy, and horror, a time that has seen the genres we love conquer the world of pop culture. For us, that means lists! ALL THE LISTS! We’ll be doing two “25 greatest” lists per day all throughout September, looking back at the moments, people, and characters that shaped the last quarter century. So keep checking back. Please note: Our lists are not ranked; all items have equal standing in our brains.
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Here are the winners of the 2017 Dragon Awards
Winners include the latest Expanse novel, Stranger Things, and Wonder Woman
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10 Things You Should Know About Ray Bradbury
For such a visionary futurist, Bradbury—who was born on this day in 1920—was rather old-fashioned.
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Science fiction author Brian Aldiss dies aged 92
The prolific writer behind more than 80 books and editor of 40 anthologies died at his Oxford home after celebrating his birthday. Brian Aldiss, the “grand old man” of science fiction whose writing has shaped the genre since he was first published in the 1950s, has died at the age of 92.
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18 space suits from science fiction, from worst to best
Space suits are cool — and complicated. Earlier this week, my colleague Loren Grush launched her new series Space Craft by seeing what wearing one is like. The answer? Exhausting. Unsurprisingly,...
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Four book series that are shaping the future of science fiction on television
Here are the searingly original visions that will soon set your monitors on fire.
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In hilarious video, the new Doctor reacts to her gender shift
Doctor Who broke casting barriers last month when it announced that the role of the Time Lord will be going to a woman, actress Jodie Whittaker. How will The Doctor react to being a woman? And how will others react to her?
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The X-Files will limit Season 11 mytharc episodes in favor of standalones
At title level, The X-Files promises spooky adventure with paranoid hi-jinks. But Fox Entertainment chairman David Madden just made another promise about the show: there will only be two “mythology” episodes in the upcoming Season 11 -- the premiere and the finale. “Eight of the episodes will be standalone stories so they will be classic ‘Mulder and Scully plunging into new adventures’” said Madden, according to Entertainment Weekly,
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Asimov's Laws Won't Stop Robots from Harming Humans, So We've Developed a Better Solution
Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario
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The Real Reason Why Valerian Flopped At The Box Office
Things are not looking good for Luc Besson's sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The expensive film was obliterated at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, falling in fifth place with only $17 million against a reported $180 million production budget.
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