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Television
fromInverse
2 days ago

10 Years Ago, One Perfect Time Travel Show Rebooted Its Basic Premise - And Nobody Noticed

12 Monkeys TV series expands on the original film's time travel concept, becoming a celebrated sci-fi show with a unique narrative direction.
History
fromWIRED
4 days ago

The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China's History

Chinese alt-history fiction allows readers to rewrite history using modern knowledge to improve China's past.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 week ago

'Beyond The Spider-Verse' May Have Just Hinted At A Huge Time-Travel Twist

Sony Animation's Spider-Verse trilogy innovatively combines comic book art techniques and low frame rates to tell expansive multiversal stories.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Marc Winters investigates a cult's past while facing existential threats in a climate-changed Britain.
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'Project Hail Mary's' Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think

"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.
OMG science
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense

Dystopian visions of AI's impact on society raise significant concerns about control and governance as technology advances.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades

Cameron Reed's science fiction explores cognitive estrangement, revealing alien worlds that reflect and challenge our own societal norms and moral dilemmas.
#time-loop
fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Independent films

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

Time-loop stories allow characters to explore alternate destinies, creating a unique narrative experience that blends control with the unpredictability of choices.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

What Will Happen In Paradise Season 3? Writer Teases A Massive [SPOILERS] Twist

Paradise reveals a complex narrative involving a quantum computer and time manipulation, culminating in significant twists across its seasons.
#science-fiction
OMG science
fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

How "Project Hair Mary" turns hardcore science into page-turning drama

Ryland Grace, a science teacher, awakens in space on a mission to save humanity from extinction.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
4 weeks ago

Tech Barons Like Elon Musk Love Sci-Fi. They Also Misunderstand It Completely.

Technology moguls often misinterpret the messages of science fiction, despite their admiration for the genre.
Television
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Stream On This Week: A Fantastic Time Travel Flick, a James Bond Riff, and Some Mindblowing Color Theories

Stream On provides weekly recommendations for films and TV shows across various streaming platforms.
Books
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Behind 'Project Hail Mary' And The Hard Sci-Fi Renaissance - And What's Next

Andy Weir's evolution as a sci-fi author reflects a blend of realism and personal growth in his characters and storytelling.
fromLondon On The Inside
1 month ago

Escape Reality with This Blade Runner Double Feature

Kick off with Ridley Scott's 1982 OG Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which stars Harrison Ford as a special agent on a mission to exterminate escaped androids. Ford is joined by Ryan Gosling in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, which is sure to whet your appetite for Dune: Part Three - hitting cinemas this December.
Film
Television
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

'Paradise' Fans Think the Show Is Teeing Up a Major Time-Travel Twist

Xavier's visions in Paradise hint at a potential time travel twist in the storyline.
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Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Project Hail Mary' Author Reveals Why That Twist Ending Is So Essential

Project Hail Mary succeeds through its relatable protagonist Ryland Grace, whose character arc includes a late-film revelation that recontextualizes his heroism and ends with him teaching science to young Eridians on an alien planet.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Project Hail Mary' Author Reveals Why That Twist Ending Is So Essential

Project Hail Mary succeeds through its relatable protagonist Ryland Grace, whose character arc includes a late-film revelation that recontextualizes his heroism and ends with him teaching science to young Eridians on an alien planet.
Science
fromBig Think
1 month ago

A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality

While immortality is impossible due to thermodynamic laws, relativity reveals physical scenarios that maximize lifespan relative to the universe by manipulating spacetime through motion and gravity.
OMG science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen

Directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord discuss their new sci-fi film Project Hail Mary, emphasizing storytelling that portrays science optimistically as a solution to future problems.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

15 Years Later, A Ridiculous Sci-Fi Thriller Is Still The Right Kind Of Stupid

Limitless depicts a man using an experimental drug to unlock mental capacity, enabling financial success through enhanced recall and cognitive abilities.
Books
fromEngadget
1 month ago

What to read this weekend: Revisiting Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep

The miniseries adapts Lovecraft's story, focusing on friendship, murder, and the gradual descent into madness with unsettling visuals.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

What Happens in the Mirror Universe Where Leo Chooses Boogie Nights

Leonardo DiCaprio's decision to star in Titanic instead of Boogie Nights was his biggest career regret, raising questions about how different both actors' trajectories would have been.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Three novels blend historical settings with fantastical elements: Jordan's memory-technology narrative spanning centuries, Sullivan's werewolf tale rooted in 18th-century France, and Mitchison's reimagined fairytale featuring an orphaned princess raised by magical creatures.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's already yesterday again: the 20 best time-loop movies ranked!

Time-loop films recycle the reset premise while varying stakes and constraints, with urgency or exposition determining whether repetition enhances drama or undermines suspense.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI | TechCrunch

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.
Writing
Philosophy
fromAeon
2 months ago

When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays

Modern linear representation of time originated in the 18th century; earlier cultures predominantly held cyclical, celestial-based conceptions of time.
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Books
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

A Radiant New Novel Uses Time Travel in a Wonderfully Fresh Way

Francis Spufford's novel Nonesuch features a time-travel plot centered on a fascist sympathizer attempting to prevent Britain's declaration of war, with conflict between her and a working-class secretary driving the narrative.
fromDefector
1 month ago

Dan Simmons Is Dead So It's Time To Read 'Hyperion' | Defector

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.
Books
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

The Most Underrated Philip K. Dick Adaptation Deserves To Be Seen

A politician and ballet dancer form an instant connection, but a shadowy organization called the Adjustment Bureau manipulates reality to separate them as part of their predetermined plan for humanity.
Television
fromInverse
2 months ago

6 Years Later, Star Trek Just Dropped A Massive Twist

The Klingon Empire collapsed after the Burn, leaving most Klingons as refugees and only a few major houses surviving into the 32nd century.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review a topical time-hopping romance

A British civil servant is hired to manage time travelers displaced from history into the present day, navigating sci-fi, romance, and contemporary social issues.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

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.
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fromArs Technica
2 months ago

TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes

Research notes in a cataloged database reveal interlinked authors, hidden computer commands, and an unfolding narrative converging on a metaphysical search and encroaching threat.
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