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fromEngadget
7 hours ago

The Spaceballs sequel will be released in April next year

Amazon MGM Studios announced that the upcoming Spaceballs movie will hit theaters on April 23, 2027, right around the 40th anniversary of the first film.
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fromInverse
2 days ago

'Project Hail Mary's' Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think

"I've done a lot of time-dilated travel." This statement encapsulates the essence of Grace's journey, highlighting the profound effects of traveling at speeds approaching light, where time for the traveler slows down significantly compared to those remaining on Earth.
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fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades

Cameron Reed's science fiction explores cognitive estrangement, revealing alien worlds that reflect and challenge our own societal norms and moral dilemmas.
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fromInverse
3 days ago
Independent films

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

Time-loop stories allow characters to explore alternate destinies, creating a unique narrative experience that blends control with the unpredictability of choices.
fromInverse
2 months ago
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How One Awesome Time Loop Sci-Fi Thriller Just Stole Its Mojo Back From Tom Cruise

An anime reimagines All You Need Is Kill by centering Rita, expanding the time-loop alien invasion into a fresh, origin-focused narrative.
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fromInverse
3 days ago

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

Time-loop stories allow characters to explore alternate destinies, creating a unique narrative experience that blends control with the unpredictability of choices.
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fromInverse
4 days ago

What Will Happen In Paradise Season 3? Writer Teases A Massive [SPOILERS] Twist

Paradise reveals a complex narrative involving a quantum computer and time manipulation, culminating in significant twists across its seasons.
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fromApaonline
5 days ago

Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense

Dystopian visions of AI's impact on society raise significant concerns about control and governance as technology advances.
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fromInverse
1 week ago

Behind 'Project Hail Mary' And The Hard Sci-Fi Renaissance - And What's Next

Andy Weir's evolution as a sci-fi author reflects a blend of realism and personal growth in his characters and storytelling.
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fromConsequence
1 week ago

Stream On This Week: A Fantastic Time Travel Flick, a James Bond Riff, and Some Mindblowing Color Theories

Stream On provides weekly recommendations for films and TV shows across various streaming platforms.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Independent films

'Project Hail Mary' Author Reveals Why That Twist Ending Is So Essential

Project Hail Mary succeeds through its relatable protagonist Ryland Grace, whose character arc includes a late-film revelation that recontextualizes his heroism and ends with him teaching science to young Eridians on an alien planet.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago
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Inside Andy Weir's wild world-building for Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary features Ryland Grace, a science teacher in space, based on Andy Weir's novel, with Ryan Gosling in the lead role.
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fromThe Hollywood Reporter
1 week ago

Why Has 'Project Hail Mary' Ignited So Much Online Debate?

Project Hail Mary has achieved significant box office success and sparked extensive social media debate on various themes and topics.
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fromSFGATE
1 week ago

The first half of 'Project Hail Mary' is damn near perfect

'Project Hail Mary' has achieved significant box office success, indicating a resurgence of quality cinema.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'Project Hail Mary' Author Reveals Why That Twist Ending Is So Essential

Project Hail Mary succeeds through its relatable protagonist Ryland Grace, whose character arc includes a late-film revelation that recontextualizes his heroism and ends with him teaching science to young Eridians on an alien planet.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

How "Project Hair Mary" turns hardcore science into page-turning drama

Ryland Grace, a science teacher, awakens in space on a mission to save humanity from extinction.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Tech Barons Like Elon Musk Love Sci-Fi. They Also Misunderstand It Completely.

Technology moguls often misinterpret the messages of science fiction, despite their admiration for the genre.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Who Says You Can't Have Fun During the Apocalypse?

Project Hail Mary presents a hopeful narrative of humanity uniting to face an apocalyptic threat, blending humor with high-stakes science fiction.
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fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Project Hail Mary Needs About 39 Percent Fewer Jokes

Project Hail Mary is an entertaining science-fiction adventure that balances humor with an intriguing apocalyptic story about stopping star-eating organisms threatening Earth.
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fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Project Hail Mary is popcorn sci-fi at its best

Project Hail Mary successfully blends buddy comedy with hard science fiction, following a scientist and alien working together to save humanity from a cosmic threat.
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fromEsquire
1 week ago

'Paradise' Fans Think the Show Is Teeing Up a Major Time-Travel Twist

Xavier's visions in Paradise hint at a potential time travel twist in the storyline.
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fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

What to read this weekend: Revisiting Project Hail Mary and The Thing on the Doorstep

The miniseries adapts Lovecraft's story, focusing on friendship, murder, and the gradual descent into madness with unsettling visuals.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

15 Years Later, A Ridiculous Sci-Fi Thriller Is Still The Right Kind Of Stupid

Limitless depicts a man using an experimental drug to unlock mental capacity, enabling financial success through enhanced recall and cognitive abilities.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The 'Seinfeld' Principle of COVID Fiction

Andrew Martin uses annoying characters and irritation as literary devices to explore social norms and human behavior, particularly in his pandemic novel Down Time, which successfully captures the early pandemic period without merely documenting it.
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fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice' Is Time-Travel Action At Its Zaniest

A time-travel sci-fi comedy follows three criminals whose night spirals into chaos when future versions of themselves appear, creating a zany four-person entanglement.
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fromiRunFar
1 month ago

Time, the Great Unifier

Dylan Harris's film 'The Cutoff' explores how time functions as both constraint and possibility in ultramarathon running, revealing triumph and heartbreak among runners pursuing the Cocodona 250 Mile cutoffs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Three novels blend historical settings with fantastical elements: Jordan's memory-technology narrative spanning centuries, Sullivan's werewolf tale rooted in 18th-century France, and Mitchison's reimagined fairytale featuring an orphaned princess raised by magical creatures.
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fromVulture
3 weeks ago

What Happens in the Mirror Universe Where Leo Chooses Boogie Nights

Leonardo DiCaprio's decision to star in Titanic instead of Boogie Nights was his biggest career regret, raising questions about how different both actors' trajectories would have been.
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fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

A Radiant New Novel Uses Time Travel in a Wonderfully Fresh Way

Francis Spufford's novel Nonesuch features a time-travel plot centered on a fascist sympathizer attempting to prevent Britain's declaration of war, with conflict between her and a working-class secretary driving the narrative.
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fromBrooklyn Paper
1 month ago

At Caveat, Laibson's tech-heavy Chekhov adaptation The HARMNF examines digital-age alienation * Brooklyn Paper

Contemporary theater uses virtual, mixed reality, and AI technologies to create immersive, interactive performances that blur traditional audience and performer roles.
fromDefector
3 weeks ago

Dan Simmons Is Dead So It's Time To Read 'Hyperion' | Defector

This is a shame, because his best work belongs with the greats of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. Summer of Night is a tighter, more satisfying version of Stephen King's It. Carrion Comfort is a brick-sized epic about psychic vampires that reads as breezily as a trade paperback. The Terror, which inspired the well-regarded show, is for its first three-quarters a brilliant and non-supernatural speculative take on a real doomed Arctic expedition.
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fromInverse
1 month ago

The Most Underrated Philip K. Dick Adaptation Deserves To Be Seen

A politician and ballet dancer form an instant connection, but a shadowy organization called the Adjustment Bureau manipulates reality to separate them as part of their predetermined plan for humanity.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review a topical time-hopping romance

A British civil servant is hired to manage time travelers displaced from history into the present day, navigating sci-fi, romance, and contemporary social issues.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI | TechCrunch

Back in December, when SFWA announced that it was updating its rules for the Nebula Awards. Works written entirely by large language models would not be eligible, while authors who used LLMs "at any point during the writing process" had to disclose that use, allowing award voters to make their own decisions about whether that usage would affect their support.
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fromArs Technica
1 month ago

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Gore Verbinski returns with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a darkly satirical time-loop sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell that warns against technology addiction while following a time traveler recruiting diner patrons to prevent an AI apocalypse.
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fromtheconversation.com
2 months ago

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Different fundamental physical theories treat time incompatibly, causing time to stretch, slow, or even disappear when those frameworks are combined.
fromInverse
2 months ago

The Dream Of Life Without Sleep Is Actually A Dystopian Nightmare

We spend one-third of our lives asleep. This biological fact is something that, with time and technology, is less and less taken for granted. In many science fiction stories, the future of sleep is cozy and idyllic - an elevated state living within dream world. In others, sleep is more of an evolutionary shackle that gets in the way of productivity. The latter focuses on questions that haunt anyone who feels there are not enough hours in the day. What if we didn't have to sleep?
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

People feel like they're in on the joke': the new wave of pseudo-biopics

Filmmakers increasingly create pseudo-biopics that borrow recognizable elements from real people and events while changing names and details to avoid legal liability and maintain creative freedom.
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

The Portland-Raised Playwright Behind Artists Repertory's Palindrome Play Racecar Racecar Racecar

For playwright Kallan Dana, having Racecar Racecar Racecar produced at Artists Repertory Theatre is a special homecoming. "I feel so lucky to get to come back and do a show there," she says. "The Portland theater scene was such a huge part of my childhood and adolescence." Now living in Brooklyn, Dana grew up in Multnomah Village. Theater was a huge part of her childhood, her parents often took her to Artists Rep shows,
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fromAeon
2 months ago

When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays

The modern linear conception of time arose in the 18th century; earlier Western thought conceived time as cyclical, tied to celestial cycles and eternal recurrence.
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fromEngadget
2 months ago

For All Mankind returns on March 27 for a fifth season

Apple TV+ has become one of the best streaming services for sci-fi, with hits like Pluribus, Severance, Foundation and many more. There are so many shows that it's easy to forget the one that started it all. For All Mankind was the platform's very first attempt at sci-fi and it's finally coming back after two years for season five on March 27. The next season will run for ten episodes on a weekly basis. It concludes on May 29, with new installments dropping each Friday.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox review space-hopping comedy asks the big question

For the sheer quantity of its gibbering, jabbering nonsense, this movie deserves some points. That, and the amusing cameo at the end from Keith David as the Simulator, AKA God, who explains to the awestruck mortals that God is an entirely free creator, rather like a self-published novelist, then grows irritated when the mortals think that being self-published is lame: It's not my fault if you don't understand the industry! This is an exhausting indie romp on the subject of time travel,
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fromInverse
2 months ago

Netflix's Most Infamous Sci-Fi Series Is Coming Back For Another Grim Season

Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series Black Mirror has been making us face the dark side of technology for 15 years now. In 2011, that meant live TV ransoms and capitalist reality shows. But last year, in Season 7, we saw memories brought to life, emotions run on subscription models, and the Hollywood remake machine going very literal. In the age of AI popping up everywhere, Black Mirror isn't going to stop reflecting real life any time soon - but what could possibly be next?
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror review roundup

Subsequently, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, surviving on food they could catch or grow, with occasional forays into the towns below. Riley has heard the rumours, but it is only when she sees a green-clad boy or is it a girl? hovering outside her bedroom window offering directions on how to find Nowhere that she realises this might be her chance to escape and save her little brother from their sadistic guardian.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's already yesterday again: the 20 best time-loop movies ranked!

Time-loop films recycle the reset premise while varying stakes and constraints, with urgency or exposition determining whether repetition enhances drama or undermines suspense.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America great again': the novelists who predicted our present

An infinite branching conception of time in which every possible path occurs anticipates many-worlds ideas in physics.
fromInverse
2 months ago

30 Years Ago, One Cyberpunk Sequel Was The Weirdest Stephen King Reboot Ever

In 1992, the original Lawnmower Man was way ahead of its time. Loosely based on the Stephen King short story of the same name, the cyberpunk film turned a neurodivergent gardener into a kind of pre- Matrix badass in a virtual world. Starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man was a haunting, bizarre sci-fi horror movie, which is utterly unlike anything else in cinema history.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Was Infinite Jest Right About Everything?

Infinite Jest is highly readable and prescient about short-form digital entertainment, while Hyperion's ambitious adaptation has faced prolonged delays despite high hopes.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Six Books for the Chronic Daydreamer

What is available is the daydream-a limitless realm of freedom. In this other world, one might be famous or rich, finally catch the attention of their beloved, or simply sit on a beach as a waiter brings them cocktails. They might fly or speak to animals, heroically save a child, tell off their boss with no consequences, win the Super Bowl at the whistle, or travel to another continent, planet, or time period. No one can stop them; no one can even object.
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