science fiction

A still from ‘Upload’ | Photo Credit: Liane Henstcher The year the science fiction comedy Upload is set in, is 2033 — 10 years from now. Wonder if the world or the US would be as shiny and messed up as the show presents it to be. Probably…

A still from director Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’ | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Pop. 87 Productions/Focus Features There is a moment in Asteroid City when an actor tells his director that he does not understand the play and wonders if he…

In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction story “Robbie,” the Weston family owns a robot who serves as a nursemaid and companion for their precocious preteen daughter, Gloria. Gloria and the robot Robbie are friends; their relationship is…

A still from ‘Twisted Metal’  | Photo Credit: @peacock/YouTube First things first—Twisted Metal, based on the eponymous videogame, is no The Last of Us, and that is not at all a bad thing. Twisted Metal, working as a prequel to the…

Lee Pace and Terrence Mann in ‘Foundation’ | Photo Credit: Apple TV Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, telling the story of an empire in decline and a psychohistorian’s attempts to save the day, has long been considered unfilmable till that…

Kim Kardashian’s newest range of products, launched in late 2022—post SKIMS shapewear, post SKKN facewear—is a menacing set of raw concrete forms for storing bathroom products: a gray tissue box, Q-tip tin, wastebasket. Dry, brutal, and…

What about cyber entities who operate below some arbitrary level of ability? We can demand that they be vouched for by some entity who is ranked higher, and who has a Soul Kernel based in physical reality. (I leave theological implications…

A still from the trailer of ‘Class of 09’ Ah time travel! If one could turn back the clock, and do something different to alter the course of events, spend some more time with a loved one, say that one thing you did not, secure in the…

Did that make you want to lighten the mood? Or really delve deeper into the darkness?I started in a way thinking, “Well, I don’t want to write another episode about what I’ve already written lots of episodes about.” One way to stop yourself…

As parliament gears up for a vote Wednesday on plans to boost military spending, the French Armed Forces look set to continue hiring science fiction authors to imagine future threats to national security. So far, sci-fi…