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The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
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75 Science Fiction Writing Prompts
Get a little push toward coming up with your next out-of-this-world screenplay idea.
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The History of Invisibility Cloaks, as Told by People in the Future
"Society struggled to make rules for using the cloaks appropriately. Law enforcement had trouble regulating the cloaks, and, by the turn of the century, Congress had banned them entirely."
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These 7 Books Predicted The Future With Eerie, Unbelievable Accuracy
The late Tom Clancy was known for his uncanny ability to accurately predict future events with his fiction writing. His 1994 novel, "Debt of Honor," describes a September 11th-like attack, and his 2010 book "Dead or Alive" describes the capture of a Bin Laden-like public enemy.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer Is Here—In the Present!
Call it Back to the Future—the mutant edition. The first official trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past has been unleashed online and fanboys will be thrilled to see the dream cast combines the star-studded ensemble from the original X-Men trilogy with that of 2011's prequel, X-Men: First Class.
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FBI feared much-loved science fiction author Isaac Asimov was Soviet agent
Isaac Asimov was one of America’s most prolific and best-loved science fiction authors, publishing more than 500 volumes in a career that spanned five decades. But newly released papers show that, in the 1960s, he was unknowingly embroiled in intrigue more suited to a John Le Carre novel, as the FBI investigated him on suspicion of being a Soviet spy.
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Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions For 2014 Are Remarkably Accurate
50 years ago, Isaac Asimov predicted the invention of tofurky and warned there would be "psychological resistance" to it. Here's what else he got right.
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The Best Star Wars Furniture That Imperial Credits Can Buy
These ARE the Star Wars-inspired furniture you've been looking for! If you're a Star Wars lovers looking to decorate your home with desks, beds, chairs, coffee tables inspired by the sci-fi series, you've come to the right place. From the amazing creations of Tom Spina and his crew over at Tom Spina Designs to talented DIYers building their own furnishings, let's take a look at 20 pieces of the Best Star Wars Furniture that Imperial Credits Can Buy.
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Canada's ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we'd stop wars
Paul Hellyer, who has long insisted that aliens have visited Earth for many years, says that when aliens saw the atomic bomb they decided that we were a great threat to the cosmos.
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The Enemy Papers
The entire Enemy Mine Series gathered in one volume: "The Talman, Enemy Mine" (The expanded Nebula and Hugo Award winner that inspired th...
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'12 Monkeys' TV series coming to Syfy next year
An adaptation of Terry Gilliam's sci-fi classic 12 Monkeys is headed to the Syfy network next year. Like the movie, the series will follow a man who time travels back from a post-apocalyptic future in order to prevent a disease from decimating humanity. The show's first season will have 13 episodes, and one of the original movie's producers has signed on to produce here too.
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Predictions 1964 World's Fair got right - and what it got very wrong
The New York World's Fair of 1964 introduced 51 million visitors to a range of technological innovations and predictions during its run.
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1964 World’s Fair tech predictions had some hits and misses
We have video phone calls and a wealth of information at our fingertips, but no personal jet packs or moon colonies.
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10 Reasons an Artificial Intelligence Wouldn't Turn Evil
We all know the story. The moment that computers with their lightning-quick processing power and interlinked systems gain sentience - it's judgment day. But would that really happen? Here are some psychological reasons why digital super-intelligence isn't going to be evil intelligence.
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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 239): Interview with SFWA Grand Master Joe Haldeman
In episode 239 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester chats with Multi-Award winning author, and SFWA Grand Master, Joe Haldeman. Links: Joe Haldeman (website) Joe Haldeman (facebook) © 2014 SFSi...
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How do you build a city in space?
After swingeing budget cuts at Nasa, a loose agglomeration of private companies – including Elon Musk's SpaceX – have revived the dormant dream of colonising other worlds
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The Best Podcast Fiction of All Time (#31 - #40)
This is my second installment of my Best Podcast Fiction of All Time List, covering #31-40. You can find #41-50 here. The list is picked from thousands of episodes of the backlog of seventeen short...
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R.I.P. Jay Lake, Irreplaceable Science Fiction And Fantasy Author
The first time I met Jay Lake, he was greeting people at a convention party in a Hawaiian shirt and joking, "That's right. I'm Cancer Guy." Lake was willing to joke about his identity as cancer survivor, while also inspiring others. But his identity as a writer and editor of groundbreaking SF was even more important.
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‘Pills and Starships,’ by Lydia Millet
“Pills and Starships,” a young-adult novel by Lydia Millet, offers a scary climate-change scenario, told in the journal entries of a teenage girl.
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The Fifth Element Is Starting to Come True
Earlier this week, we learned that Apple's Touch ID could be used in third party apps with iOS 8, paving the way to make your fingerprint a universal password. On a seemingly unrelated note, we also discovered a concept cigarette designed to help you quit smoking. And suddenly, it seemed apparent. We're living in The Fifth Element.
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