#science-fiction-threat

#science-fiction-threat

Star City examines the alt-history space race from the Soviet perspective, steeped in Cold War-era paranoia with secret photos, tapped phones, and disappearances.

"I've done a lot of time-dilated travel." This statement encapsulates the essence of Grace's journey, highlighting the profound effects of traveling at speeds approaching light, where time for the traveler slows down significantly compared to those remaining on Earth.

Back in December, when SFWA announced that it was updating its rules for the Nebula Awards. Works written entirely by large language models would not be eligible, while authors who used LLMs "at any point during the writing process" had to disclose that use, allowing award voters to make their own decisions about whether that usage would affect their support.

Subsequently, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, surviving on food they could catch or grow, with occasional forays into the towns below. Riley has heard the rumours, but it is only when she sees a green-clad boy or is it a girl? hovering outside her bedroom window offering directions on how to find Nowhere that she realises this might be her chance to escape and save her little brother from their sadistic guardian.

This is a shame, because his best work belongs with the greats of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Summer of Night is a tighter, more satisfying version of Stephen King's It. Carrion Comfort is a brick-sized epic about psychic vampires that reads as breezily as a trade paperback. The Terror, which inspired the well-regarded show, is for its first three-quarters a brilliant and non-supernatural speculative take on a real doomed Arctic expedition.

A study found that reading banned books predicted civic engagement more strongly than personality traits. Reading banned books showed zero correlation with grades, violent crime, or nonviolent crime in adolescents. Reactance theory explains why censorship backfires: Restricted freedoms activate curiosity and thinking.

In "AI 2027" - a document outlining the impending impacts of AI, published in April 2025 - the former OpenAI employee and several peers announced that by April 2027, unchecked AI development would lead to superintelligence and consequently destroy humanity.

Zoom in: "The humans are screenshotting us," an AI agent wrote. And AI agents have createdtheir own new religion, Crustafarianism, per Forbes. Core belief: "Memory is sacred." Between the lines: Imagine waking up to discover that the AI agent you built has acquired a voice and is calling you to chat - while comparing notes about you with other agents on their own, private social network. It's not science fiction.It's happening right now - and it's freaking out some of the smartest names in AI.