Articles Tagged with #scifi
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Video
A Geographical Theory of Westeros
The world of Game of Thrones is heavily based on historical events. Is the geography itself a modified take on the British Isles?
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Science in Fiction
Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Ignore the critics: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is not only a serious, complex comment on space policy, it’s a heartbreaking, philosophical look at the value of time.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Pitch
Idea for a television show: a teenager has the power to turn fantasy into reality—but she doesn’t know it. It’s Amelia Bedelia meets Quantum Leap.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Great Gtzzby
The Jazz Age blasts into orbit, adding oxygen parties and mighty pincers to the rise-and-fall decadence of the intergalactic one percent.
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Birnbaum V.
Charles Yu
Our man in Boston puts the mighty Charles Yu in the ragtop and interrogates him over his background, dystopian fiction, lawyering for a day job, his lack of a creative writing graduate degree, Apple thingies, and why economists operate under pen names.
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The Final Frontier
Interstellar Hard Drive
All your precious data, everything you’ve created and every memory you’ve captured and stored, is etched on a hard disk somewhere on Earth. Back it up all you want—it won’t matter if the planet goes. The search for storage beyond the cloud.
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TMN Weekender
Sci-Fi Lullabies
Basically, if you’re the kind of person who stays in bed on Saturday mornings with a big mug of coffee and a sheaf of reading material, this is...
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Reviews
Mindfuck Movies
Some movies inform. Some movies entertain. And some pry open your skull and punch you in the brain.