Ares, named after the Greek god of war, was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then he found out about Frankenstein, started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized…
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Read more Lee Pace Has Big Hopes for the Fourth Season of ‘Foundation’The Nebula Award! It’s like a Hugo Award, but slightly less prestigious. Don’t let that fool you into thinking that a Nebula Award winning novel is only “second…
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Read more What to read this weekend: Jeff VanderMeer returns to Area XBut then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker, too, had then taken to…
Read more ‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach BookNew releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen There’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial…
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Read more Justice League Unlimited ran so Batman: Caped Crusader could sulk**SPOILERS AHEAD**!!!!!! As the fictional Freud writes of his own approaching death, he foresees the death of his sister Dolfi (who will die three years later in historical…
Read more China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves)Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything…
Read more Shockbuster Season: Why the Death of the Summer Movie Is a Good ThingHelmed by Nikita Argunov, Coma (2020) is a Russian sci-fi action movie that follows a young architect awakening in a dystopian realm, shared by coma patients’ memories. In…
Read more Coma (2020) Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via PeacockOf all the utterly depressing things printed in the Hollywood trades on any given day, this has got to be among the worst: “It’s so not good, and…
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Read more The 16 Sci-Fi Movies You Need to Watch Before You DieConstellation Live and Let Die Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Apple TV+ Watching people do things in space with a time limit is…
Read more Constellation Recap: The Woman Who Fell to EarthSmile 2 rounds out its cast. M3GAN 2.0 is going to take a lot longer to come out than planned. Simu Liu is teaming up with James Wan…
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Read more 14 Powerful Genre-Bending Films That Explore Love in Unconventional WaysSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 science fiction adventure film set in an alternate 1939, that follows the daring pilot Sky Captain and reporter…
Read more Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via HBO MaxThe moon of Veldt is a David facing down the Goliath of the Mother World, which has amassed abundant wealth, political power, and an immense army. Veldt is…
Read more Zack Snyder Goes Galactic: Exclusive First Look at ‘Rebel Moon’Dunne’s family declined to comment for this story, preferring not to relive the tragedy. Packer did not respond to requests for an interview. As the deplorable Daniel, the…
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