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Sea of Tranquility
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Emily St John Mandel’s sixth novel Sea of Tranquility playfully and indulgently bends time travel, metaphysics and grief. The science fiction novel juggles an ambitious amount: a young man in 1912 exiled to the …
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Textiles embedded with data, new fish species, fashion in the metaverse and more
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INVERSE’s “ASAP Awards” Recommends Now-Streaming Sci-Fi Movies
Science-centric website INVERSE released their 2022 ASAP Awards: a list celebrating science fiction films that are currently streaming. Essentially a guide to innovative, interesting and iconic movies, the titles include Bong Joon-ho’s …
Via fastcompany.com
From Perriand to Saarinen, The Chairs of Star Trek
For the last few years, a team of devout Star Trek fans—including Buenos Aires-based 3D artist Tadeo D’Oria—have been carefully identifying every chair in its science fiction universe. Much of what they’ve …
On NEON’s Ambitions for an Artificial Human
The company's prototype personality mirrors goals and fears in tech-fiction television
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National Geographic on How Science Fiction Informs the Future
Word would travel of scientist Giovanni Aldini’s electric reanimation experiments on dead criminals in 1803 to author Mary Shelley before the 1818 publish of her book Frankenstein. It was an instance of …
Via theguardian.com
Farewell, Ursula K Le Guin
With a career spanning almost 50 years, science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K Le Guin has passed away at 88 years old. Perhaps best known for her “Earthsea” series (which began …
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Star Trek turns 50, hospitals of the future, art collaborations and more in our look at the web
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Star Trek Was More Than it Seemed
The original Star Trek series might have only lasted three years, but it explored significant political and cultural issues—despite it oftentimes being looked over as purely playful and kitsch. The cult TV …