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fromwww.npr.org
13 hours ago

The best TV to catch up on over the Thanksgiving weekend

A curated list recommends standout contemporary and rewatchable television series—notably Alien: Earth, The Lowdown, and Pluribus—for Thanksgiving viewing and catch-up.
#pluribus
#video-games
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 week ago

For 50 years, Third Planet has welcomed generations of comic book fans

"Third Planet, a comic book and sci-fi superstore, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in November. TJ Johnson opened the store in 1975."
Books
Television
fromConsequence
1 week ago

Stargate to Get Prime Video Revival from Original Series Writer

Prime Video is reviving the Stargate universe with a new ongoing series created by Martin Gero, continuing the long-running franchise.
Film
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Stranded astronaut finds an alien ally in Project Hail Mary trailer

Project Hail Mary, adapted from a bestselling 2021 novel, becomes a space-odyssey film starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence?

And now we live in an era in which a chatbot can write a passable sonnet, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn't been a huge shift in how film-makers approach this particular corner of sci-fi. Gareth Edwards' The Creator (2023) is essentially the same story about AIs being the newly persecuted underclass as 1962's The Creation of the Humanoids, except that the former has an $80m VFX budget and robot monks while the latter has community-theatre production values.
Film
Film
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Of The '90s Just Got A Major Upgrade

Dark City is a visually striking, underrated sci-fi about fabricated identities and manipulated reality, commercially unsuccessful and later overshadowed by The Matrix.
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

The Most Exciting New Sci-Fi Game On Steam Is A Job Simulator About Death

Death is everywhere in video games, but it's rarely something we're asked to think much about. It's something to escape or inflict onto others, marking the end of your run in a roguelike or a goal to reach for in a competitive shooter. What's explored much less often is what's left behind, in the form of grief, memories, and physical remains, all of which in real life require careful handling and reflection.
Video games
#predator-franchise
#vince-gilligan
fromConsequence
2 weeks ago
Television

Pluribus Review: Vince Gilligan Remixes The Twilight Zone For One of the Year's Best New Shows

fromConsequence
2 weeks ago
Television

Pluribus Review: Vince Gilligan Remixes The Twilight Zone For One of the Year's Best New Shows

fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago

Vince Gilligan's Riveting "Pluribus" Is the Television Event of the Year | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

In the latest show from "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, the crime genre gives way to a bewildering mix of science fiction and noir. Soaked in obvious inspirations from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to less obvious expressions of James Ward Byrkit's "Coherence," Gilligan's new Apple TV+ series begins with Best-Selling author Carol Sturka ( Rhea Seehorn) reading the latest novel of her best-selling book series to a crowd of fans.
Television
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

In 'Pluribus,' isolation is the price of a frictionless life

Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus explores contemporary loneliness through science-fiction elements, following Rhea Seehorn's isolated protagonist who confronts a world without annoyances.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 weeks ago

The Outer Worlds 2 is officially out, bringing a new adventure across the galaxy

The Outer Worlds 2 delivers a branching, choice-driven sci-fi RPG set on Arcadia where player decisions, character builds, and factions reshape the galaxy's fate.
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

35 Years Ago, A B-Movie Legend's Last Film Was An Awesomely Ludicrous Sci-Fi Flop

There is a literal s**t-ton of movies that carry the name " Frankenstein" in their titles. From the most faithful adaptations of Mary Shelley's original novel to in-name-only, bargain-basement cheapies, there has been no shortage of motion pictures ready to glom onto the property, going back to the earliest days of cinema. But occasionally one emerges that is actually offbeat and decent enough to warrant additional attention.
Film
Silicon Valley
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Why Silicon Valley's vision of the future is broken-and how to fix it

Silicon Valley often treats science fiction as a blueprint, producing dramatic but impractical products instead of pragmatic, human-centered solutions.
#artificial-intelligence
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

Greenlight Coverage Celebrates Gotham Week Partnership and Recognizes Top Three Projects (Sponsored Post)

Three screenplays—The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, The Poem, and The Camford Experiment—received top marks for storytelling, originality, and thematic depth.
Miscellaneous
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?

The technological sublime evokes simultaneous awe and dread, revealing vast technological power while potentially obscuring associated risks and consequences.
Film
fromIndieWrap - Independent Film Magazine
1 month ago

TRIESTE SCIENCE+FICTION FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 25TH YEAR - IndieWrap

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival runs Oct 28–Nov 2, 2025, celebrating its 25th anniversary with over 50 premieres, international guests, and special events.
fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

Ursula K. Le Guin's Son Recommends 5 of Her Books

"Her voice is as familiar to me as my own," says Theo Downes-Le Guin, youngest child of hugely influential Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin. "That voice is inside my head while I'm reading." Most aren't so fortunate, even if they feel at home in Le Guin's Earthsea and Hainish universes. Before her death in 2018, Le Guin was unanimously regarded as the leading light of American science fiction.
Writing
#tron-ares
fromFortune
1 month ago
Film

Disney's 'Tron: Ares' tops weekend box office with $33.5 million haul on reported $150 million budget | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Film

Disney's 'Tron: Ares' tops weekend box office with $33.5 million haul on reported $150 million budget | Fortune

fromFast Company
1 month ago

'Tron: Ares' makes $33.5 million at box office debut, falling short of expectations

"Tron: Ares" powered up the box office grid in the top spot this weekend, but Disney's third entry in the sci-fi franchise fell short of expectations. Despite some favorable reviews - including a three-out-of-four-star one from The Associated Press - the new "Tron" film starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges earned $33.5 million, according to Comscore estimates on Sunday. The big-budget project, reported to cost around $150 million, arrived 15 years after "Tron: Legacy" opened to $44 million before grossing more than $400 million globally.
Film
#tron
#ai
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Renato Casaro's Amazing Sci-Fi Movie Poster Artwork Will Live Forever

Renato Casaro was a leading Italian poster artist whose lush, painterly science fiction and fantasy film posters defined a bygone era of cinematic illustration.
Television
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Halo TV Show Hits Netflix, Quickly Becomes One Of The Most Popular Shows On The Platform

Both seasons of the Halo TV series are now available on Netflix after the show's cancellation following two seasons.
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Love and Deepspace Is Huge, So Why Am I Just Learning About It?

Love and Deepspace has a surprisingly complex science fiction story in which the main character, a woman named and customized by the player, is a "deepspace hunter" who fights creatures called Wanderers, but she also, unbeknownst to her, has been reincarnated multiple times. In all these previous lives, she has met the game's five love interests, and unlocking memories from those past iterations is one of the biggest draws of the game because they not only delve into the game's broader mysteries,
Video games
Video games
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Ambrosia Sky is an essay on death masquerading as a sci-fi cleaning sim

Death cleaner Dalia clears alien fungal contamination on Saturn's rings, harvests spores for tools and research, and conducts ritual Death Rites to preserve DNA.
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 months ago

'The Motion' debates animal testing with a sci-fi twist

A sci-fi fable, The Motion, is a heated debate on animal testing that slips down a kaleidoscopic rabbit hole where the audience equipped with voting cards becomes an accomplice. Shotgun Players' Artistic Director Patrick Dooley directs the world premiere from the Bay Area playwright Christopher Chen, an Obie Award winner. Shotgun Players The Motion, starts Sept. 13, Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave. Tickets online or at (510) 841-6500 ext. 303. Pay-what-you-can tickets and special pricing available.
Arts
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Cronos: The New Dawn Review - The Iron Hurtin'

Cronos: The New Dawn proves Bloober Team can craft original, intense sci‑fi survival horror with atmospheric storytelling, challenging combat, and strict inventory management despite flaws.
#alien-franchise
Books
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Cautionary Tales as Inoculation

Cautionary tales persist across time as fables warning about hubris, recklessness, and self-inflicted consequences through folklore and speculative fiction.
Video games
fromGameSpot
3 months ago

Outer Worlds 2 Lets You Play A Bumbling Space Moron In Way Over Their Head

The Outer Worlds 2 emphasizes sharp satire of corporations and totalitarian governments, using a spacefaring retro-future setting and systems designed to amplify dark humor.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

The Occupant review air crash survival thriller gets Rob Delaney's voice for company

A survival sci-fi thriller follows Abby's desperate journey through remote Georgia to save her terminally ill sister, anchored by strong performances but uneven execution.
Books
fromGameSpot
3 months ago

Save On Special Edition Books With Barnes & Noble's B1G1 50% Off Sale

Barnes & Noble offers B1G1 50% off on over 60 collectible hardcover editions, including multi-novel volumes with bonded-leather bindings, through September 2.
Books
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality

Certain science-fiction novels merge compelling storytelling with provocative ethical and philosophical questions about humanity, science, identity, and societal flaws.
fromInverse
3 months ago

59 Years Later, The 2 Oldest Sci-Fi Shows Just Sneakily Crossed Over

In the sixth episode of Strange New Worlds Season 3, the famous spaceship from Doctor Who is tangled with the USS Enterprise, signifying a cross-franchise Easter egg.
Science
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

The AI future is too scary even for James Cameron. Where can the Terminator franchise go from here?

James Cameron is unable to write Terminator 7 due to real-world events mirroring his plotlines.
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

"Butler's stories reckoned with chattel slavery, climate catastrophe, and fascism, and were deeply attuned to West African culture and the American civil-rights movement."
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

I luxuriate in the weird details': why Highlander is my feelgood movie

Highlander blends science fiction, fantasy, and romance with a Queen soundtrack, presenting an absurd premise where immortals duel throughout history in a beheading battle royale.
Film
#time-travel
fromInverse
3 months ago
Film

65 Years Ago, One Iconic Sci-Fi Movie Defined A Genre Forever

The 1960 film The Time Machine set the standard for mainstream time travel cinema.
fromA Philosopher's Blog
4 months ago
Philosophy

Metaphysics of Time Travel: Grandaddy Issues

Time travel creates paradoxes, like the Grandfather Paradox, which challenges the possibility of altering the past.
Film
fromInverse
3 months ago

73 Years Later, Apple's Most Ambitious Epic Honors A Classic Sci-Fi Twist

Foundation adapts Asimov's themes for modern audiences and delivers key plot twists from the original novels.
#star-trek
fromPolygon
4 months ago
Film

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members had mixed feelings about the show's veer into horror

fromRoger Ebert
4 months ago
Television

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Bears the Franchise Flagship Proudly in Season 3 | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

fromPolygon
4 months ago
Television

More characters from the original Star Trek series are heading to Strange New Worlds

fromPolygon
4 months ago
Film

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members had mixed feelings about the show's veer into horror

fromRoger Ebert
4 months ago
Television

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Bears the Franchise Flagship Proudly in Season 3 | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

fromPolygon
4 months ago
Television

More characters from the original Star Trek series are heading to Strange New Worlds

Television
fromInverse
3 months ago

30 Years Ago, The Greatest Cyberpunk Show Of All Time Got A Strange Reboot

Æon Flux transformed from brief animated shorts into a significant full series, influencing the science fiction genre and exploring themes of dystopia and societal conflict.
fromNature
3 months ago

A rude awakening

There is no solid landmass. What we believed to be small islands are, in fact, algae-like structures that float at the surface of the oceans.
Science
fromThe Verge
3 months ago

Brazil is as prescient as ever

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our great science fiction films have been hostile aliens, seductive robots, and reckless technologies, Terry Gilliam begins his with a humble typo.
Film
Video games
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

All-star lineup: Aphelion, a game made in collaboration with the European Space Agency

Don't Nod aims to create meaningful games with emotional narratives and diverse gameplay experiences.
Film
fromVulture
3 months ago

Ice Cube's War of the Worlds Is Too Crazy for This Planet

Surveillance technology is portrayed as a means for emotional connection in a father-child relationship.
Film
fromInverse
3 months ago

25 Years Later, Paul Verhoeven's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Is Better Than You Remember

Hollow Man presents themes of ambition, identity, and societal issues through the story of an invisible scientist succumbing to his darker instincts.
Apple
fromThe Verge
4 months ago

Breaking Bad creator's new sci-fi show hits Apple in November

Apple's new show Pluribus, created by Vince Gilligan, premieres on November 7th, featuring Rhea Seehorn and centered on a miserable protagonist.
SF music
fromSFGATE
4 months ago

25 years ago, a Bay Area rap crew saw the future. Now everyone's singing along.

Mega-corporations control the future, extracting resources and suppressing dissent while a rebel rapper fights against oppressive regimes.
from48 hills
4 months ago

Steal this future - 48 hills

The city has been flattened, the backs of its bridges broken, but is slowly coming back to life.
SF food
Film
fromInverse
4 months ago

The Most Iconic Sci-Fi Thriller Franchise Is Creating Some Tricky Canon

Alien: Earth exists in parallel to the original movie franchise, not as a canonical prequel.
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

'Predator: Badlands' makes the monstrous hunter a hero. Here's what to know about the sequel.

In 'Predator: Badlands,' a young Yautja named Dek, portrayed by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, becomes the protagonist, marking a departure from the franchise's traditional storytelling.
Film
Film
fromIndieWire
4 months ago

'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: Marvel's Most Famous Family Trips Over Itself in MCU Debut

The film explores themes of fear and thrill through the character of Reed Richards, balancing personal desires against professional challenges.
Film
fromRoger Ebert
4 months ago

Fantasia 2025: Terrestrial, Hold the Fort, Good Boy | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Fantasia festival features diverse genres, including horror, animation, and science fiction, showcasing unique narratives that explore personal struggles and ambitions.
Science
fromInverse
4 months ago

Apple's Most Epic Sci-Fi Show Just Got Its Own Version Of The Death Star

Foundation Season 3 deepens the intrigue around the Cleon dynasty, revealing shocking developments that reshape the narrative.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 months ago

Is it time to chart a new path for xenolinguistics through sci-fi? | Aeon Essays

Francis Godwin's 1638 story The Man in the Moone features one of the earliest mentions of extraterrestrial language.
fromArs Technica
4 months ago

Synths hunt down deadly monsters in latest Alien: Earth trailer

The eight-episode series is set in 2120, where corporate interests are competing to unlock the key to human longevity, possibly even immortality.
Film
#murderbot
Digital life
fromAllHipHop
4 months ago

Step Into Time: A Dystopian Saga Masterfully Told

A hidden world thrives, powered by time until reality breaks, marking a gripping sci-fi breakthrough by a successful author.
SF music
fromFuncheap
4 months ago

First Friday: CosmoCon

Family-friendly event focused on storytelling and world-building, featuring various activities for all ages.
fromInverse
4 months ago

65 Years Ago, One Ambitious Sci-Fi Reboot Was Murdered By A Fatal Flaw

The 1960 version of The Lost World contains no recognizable dinosaurs, which makes it a bizarre oddity in sci-fi cinema, unlike its subsequent counterparts.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

The only realistic way human beings could colonise planets beyond our solar system is if they spent their lives travelling and committed their children and grandchildren to the same fate.
Science
Science
fromHackernoon
4 months ago

Can We Hitch a Ride Through Space on Hypervelocity Stars? | HackerNoon

Science fiction offers visions of space travel that inspire belief in colonization of the galaxy within a millennium.
fromGameSpot
4 months ago

The Expanse Book Box Set Is Extremely Cheap In Amazon's Prime Day Book Sale

The Expanse 3-Book Box Set is selling for only $20, offering fans a chance to acquire the first three novels of this acclaimed series affordably.
E-Commerce
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Quatermass 2 review Hammer turns up the heat in enjoyable alien invader sequel

Quatermass 2 features an alien takeover plot, government conspiracies, and action-packed sequences, but suffers from diminished excitement compared to its predecessor.
fromThe Verge
4 months ago

A guide to the best sci-fi streaming this summer

Apple's adaptation of Martha Wells' novels about a depressed and anxiety-ridden killing machine offers brisk, funny episodes that are easy to binge-watch. With its light tone, it contrasts with the show's existential themes. The finale of its first season will be released on July 11, allowing ample time for new viewers to catch up.
Science
Film
fromArs Technica
4 months ago

Project Hail Mary trailer looks like a winner for Andy Weir fans

The film adaptation of Project Hail Mary shows promise with a talented team and a storyline reminiscent of The Martian.
Film
fromInverse
4 months ago

Ryan Gosling's New Movie Is A Unique Riff On The Sci-Fi Space Adventure

Ryan Gosling excels across genres, particularly in science fiction, as demonstrated in his upcoming film Project Hail Mary.
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