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In the June 4 & 11, 2012, issue of The New Yorker, Jennifer Egan, in her story “Black Box,” re-imagines one of the characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” as a futuristic female spy keeping a mental ...
May 28, 2012 at 16:57 | Source: Wired News
Science and space exploration have caught up to science fiction in many ways, producing marvels beyond the imaginings of the visionary writers of the past. Yet there are staples of science fiction that current technology is still leagues away from ...
May 18, 2012 at 18:42 | Source: Space News
The future may seem to be closer or farther off, depending on the era you're living in. That's one of the possible conclusions you can draw from this chart (embedded below), created by Stephanie Fox for io9, based on research we've done over the past month.
May 18, 2012 at 18:56 | Source: io9.com
First they tried to drag us back to the 1960s with Austin Powers. Now they're doing it again with Men in Black III, whose plot time-jumps to the 1969 Apollo launch. But why go back to this world-changing decade with bad science fiction when you could ...
May 24, 2012 at 20:01 | Source: io9.com
Nearly 200 MIT students, alumni and local residents form MIT’s Science Fiction Society, which curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published. The library’s impressive stacks make it ...
May 15, 2012 at 13:31 | Source: MIT News
We've touched on popular science fiction and fantasy novels that need to have video games made out of them in the past, but commenter TheGizmofromPizmo's list of ten contains some rather intriguing ideas, hence today's Speak Up on Kotaku. Ten books/series ...
May 20, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: Kotaku.com
Everyone loves the idea of traveling to faraway planets and hanging out with aliens, right? Science fiction is such a cool genre — there’s spaceships and jet packs and lightsabers and sexy green women and a guy who travels through time in a phone booth!
May 25, 2012 at 17:44 | Source: Flavorwire
Author Ray Bradbury, famous for his dystopian visions of America’s future, once called science fiction “the art of the possible.” With the powerful effects of phenomena like Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns — which states that ...
May 18, 2012 at 11:40 | Source: Dartmouth
Got a derelict spaceship you need to tow back to star base? Or maybe you're trying to prevent an enemy vessel from escaping? No problem: fire up the tractor beam. This jack-of-all-trades tool ranks as a science fiction staple right alongside lasers and ...
May 17, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: YAHOO!
Replace these Affiliate Programs at ANYTIME! Your banner here within the next hour. Mark Lund, Executive Producer, is pleased to announce that Justice Is Mind: Evidence will have its fifth screening at Balticon 46 in Hunt Valley, MD on May 25. Presented by ...
May 17, 2012 at 00:42 | Source: Newswiretoday.com