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Ursula K. Le Guin gets her own U.S postage stamp (news).
Fantasy and science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin – best known for her Hainish universe novels and Earthsea fantasy series – is…
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Machines in control: the dark side of utopia (science video).
Isaac Arthur examines how artificial intelligence may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming the robots don’t take over, instead. And we also…
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Tom Welling: Smallville’s Clark Kent speaks (video).
Actor Tom Welling, Smallville‘s Clark Kent/Superman, speaks to Lex Luthor (or Michael Rosenbaum as we prefer to call him) about their time on…
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Nuking our way to Mars (science video).
There are more than a couple of ways to nuke our passage to Mars. There’s the old Project Orion method of just chucking…
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Wondering about the wonder in WandaVision? (Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin review).
Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin are back in Zoom-town to bring you their thoughts on the first live-action MCU TV series to hit…
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Storm Constantine, fantasy author, passes away aged 64 (news).
Sad news just in, fantasy author Storm Constantine – best known for her Wraeththu series – has passed away aged 64. Her family…
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USS Enterprise builds ranked from the most awful to the greatest (Star Trek video).
Have you ever wished to ponder all the USS Enterprise builds from Star Trek ranked from the most awful to the greatest? Oh,…
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Here Comes Frieda (short science fiction film: in full – video).
Here Comes Frieda is a short science fiction movie by Robin Takao D’Oench. It’s 2040, and super-storms of lethal proportion are commonplace. Citizens…
ReviewScifi
Dune: The Duke Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy book 1) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
To paraphrase Liet-Kynes, ‘Against all better judgement, I liked book.’ Put another way, there’s a fair deal of antipathy directed at Messrs Herbert…
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Vanguard (The Genesis Fleet book 1) by Jack Campbell (book review).
In the early days of Science Fiction, the ‘Pulp’ era, the main concern was action and adventure. There was a conceit that eventually…
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Cyro-sleep and society (science video).
Isaac Arthur is back with a look at the thorny topic of suspended animation, aka cryo-sleep, and brings us a 30-minute-long Isaac Arthur…
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Archive – a scifi film review by Mark Kermode (video).
In science fiction movie Archive, it’s 2038, and an expert in artificial intelligence secretly attempts to reunite with his sadly deceased wife through…