The latest installment in MIT’s Twelve Tomorrows series toggles between utopian and dystopian. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-05-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
Led by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, several professional writers' organizations and authors have formed the #DisneyMustPay task force, petitioning Walt Disney Co. to honor author contracts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now ownsA task force made up of science fiction and fantasy, romance, crime and horror authors has been formed in an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-04-28 17:07:11 UTC ]
It sounds like science fiction but the demonstration by Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink is a brain-machine interface in action. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2021-04-15 02:20:13 UTC ]
Middle grade books in SPAAAAACE! Check out some middle grade science fiction comics set in space, including On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-04-13 10:36:00 UTC ]
“The Memory Theater,” “On Fragile Waves” and “Victories Greater Than Death” take readers tumbling through realms and ever stranger stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-13 09:00:08 UTC ]
Writings by Brenda Peynado, Elizabeth Hand, Izumi Suzuki, Bruce Sterling and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-06 13:00:00 UTC ]
If you need a little optimism about the future (and who doesn't?), pick up these hopeful science fiction and fantasy books, including LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-04-02 10:32:00 UTC ]
Jaeger’s 1920s novels, ‘The Question Mark’ and ‘The Man With Six Senses,’ are H.G. Wellsian works of love and science. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-24 16:24:26 UTC ]
As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career—and his genre’s place in society—have gone through the looking glass. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2021-03-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
The parasites, hybrids, and vampires of her science fiction make the price of persisting viscerally real. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-03-08 11:00:00 UTC ]
The legacy of science fiction author Octavia Butler is to be explored at the Barbican's New Suns feminist literary festival this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 07:24:31 UTC ]
The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements in 12 categories, including the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, with winners to be announced April 16. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-02 15:00:14 UTC ]
This new form of mobility will be very different from our current reality, which provides some unique design opportunities. The future of urban air mobility is often represented in utopian images. A wealth of fanciful renderings show flying vehicles taking off and landing vertically from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2021-02-24 08:00:33 UTC ]
Many of our favorite books are better as films. Other times, it’s better to stick with the book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-23 17:17:00 UTC ]
MANY HISTORIES OF CYBERPUNK emphasize its literary precursors — its borrowings from hard-boiled detective fiction, for example, or the proto-cyberpunk elements in the science fiction of writers such as Alfred Bester, John Brunner, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree Jr., and others.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-20 16:00:16 UTC ]
Science fiction has often had an inspirational and positive relationship with space endeavors. But the new US Space Force is struggling with a pop culture public relations problem. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-02-19 13:20:06 UTC ]
In short stories like “The Immortals” and novels like “The Listeners,” Mr. Gunn helped prepare readers for the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-11 17:10:44 UTC ]
Tevis wrote science fiction greats like “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and the overlooked “Mockingbird.” Also, “The Hustler.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-03 17:15:28 UTC ]
Find some immersive, out-of-this-world stories featuring LGBTQ+ characters in these excellent queer science fiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-02-02 11:32:00 UTC ]