It’s been just over 15 years since Firefly fans were introduced to Captain Mal and the crew of the Serenity, and almost as long since those same fans began desperately waiting for the show to come back from cancellation. That’s probably really unlikely at this point, but you can dream a little with this gorgeous tribute video.

When the universalization of “Star Wars” is complete, it will no longer be a story but an aesthetic.

In Katsoulis's world, the super-rich have legitimized their wealth and power -- and the indentured slavery of nearly everyone else -- by claiming ownership over every expressive word that can be spoken and gesture that can be made.

After an outcry among fans following Syfy’s discontinuation of the series on its network, The Expanse will be getting a fourth season on Amazon Prime after an announcement from Jeff Bezos. Bezos revealed the news at the International Space Development Conference where members of the show’s ca…

As an early embryo, every mammal, bird, and reptile contains a clump of cells with a remarkable power. Called “the organizer,” it prompts neighboring cells to develop into what will later become the animal’s brain and spinal cord. Biologists have not been able to show that such an organizer exists in human embryos because of ethical constraints on such research.

On Spy Fiction. The spy novel departs from its social-realist cousins, even the police procedural: crime gathers a large web of social interactions; espionage remains sealed off from the world at large. Cause and effect do not ramify outward, in horizontal networks; they move from big, those cold brains in a small room, to little, in a vertical cascade. The answer is inside, but it is also obvious, a purloined letter too large for any other genre’s frame. By Nicholas Dames.

“But it is my firm conviction that the ‘Hell of England’ will cease to be that of ‘not making money;’ that we shall get a nobler Hell and a nobler Heaven!” — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present. By Zero HP Lovecraft.

I’m not a touchy-feely person. On the Myers-Briggs personality scale, I “think” rather than “feel.” (ENTP, babies.) But watching the video for The Guild’s "I’m the One That’s Cool" put a lump in my throat and made me sniffle with what-the-hell-are-these-human-feelings emotion.

"It’s the very definition of 'solid' and 'competent.' Nothing more, nothing less," one critic writes in his review

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Tech flourished in communist Bulgaria and so did a body of science fiction asking vital philosophical questions. By Victor Petrov.

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The author on her love for ‘The Prisoner,’ her pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed, and the pressure she felt as an autistic person to downplay the intensity of her interests. By Sarah Kurchak.

Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200. By Ronald Bailey.

Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future? By Iwan Rhys Morus.

What makes a science fiction story a space opera? By T.W. O'Brien.

A fascinating survey details the migration patterns of pop-culture obsessives.