Science Fiction

Good cyberpunk touch for cybermonday. A free book pirated by its authors. For many years in print, we decided to allow it to be free online...

The MIRRORSHADES cyberpunk story collection, the original, with stories by William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Lew Shiner, Marc Laidlaw, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Tom Maddox, Paul Di Filippo , James Patrick Kelly, and, yes, me--

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VFX artists praise the underrated sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence for its combination of practical effects and CGI.
The film used impressive detail to bring Stanley Kubrick's original vision to life, making it a highly memorable experience.
Spielberg's dedication to accurately displaying Kubrick's vision underscores his commitment to the film, and hints at future impressive productions.
VFX artists are praising an underrated sci-fi movie created by Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg 22 years after the movie's release. Kubrick is best known for being an influential director, responsible for classic movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining. Spielberg is also considered a legendary filmmaker, having directed everything from sci-fi thriller Jurassic Park to historical drama Schindler's List.
Now, Corridor Crew has reacted to the VFX in Kubrick and Spielberg's collaborative effort, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, praising the underrated sci-fi film for its visuals.

Has anyone else seen this new show on Amazon? It's animated and really good. TV MA.

From Interstellar to 2001: A Space Odyssey, these are the 10 best hard science-fiction movies, ranked.

Breaking down a bumper crop of trippy, dystopian genre films featuring some of the finest actors working.

Science fiction’s so-called New Wave era began in approximately 1964. Writing in 2003 about that “cusp” year, Michael Moorcock noted: “It will [soon] be 40 years since JG Ballard published The Terminal Beach, Brian Aldiss published Greybeard, William Burroughs published Naked Lunch in the UK, I took over New Worlds magazine and Philip K Dick published The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.” The era lasted through approximately 1983 — giving way to the cyberpunk era, the kickoff of which we might as well date to the 1984 publication of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

I'm really bummed about this. Jared Leto is a creep - the LAST person to be in a beloved scifi franchise, let alone Tron.

A granddad who can disappear; a long-missing mom who can fly. At first glance, the extraordinarily-abled outcasts whom society brands as dangerous in sci-fi movie Freaks (streaming here on Peacock!) seem to have a whole lot in common with the mutants of Marvel’s X-Men movie-verse — a resemblance that feels even more apt in light of recent gritty X-Men projects like 2017’s Logan and the three seasons of Noah Hawley’s well-received Legion TV series (which also debuted in 2017). Though it’s an orig

After years of waiting, you can now dive into the archives of a sci-fi institution.

This auction has a crazy amount of Scifi movie memorabilia. Get the checkbook (and buy me something)!

A new documentary, A Disturbance in the Force, explores how and perhaps more importantly, why the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special was made.

• Netflix gave Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of "47 Ronin," millions to produce a sci-fi series.
• But Rinsch used the money to trade stocks and crypto instead, The New York Times reported.
• Rinsch made a windfall trading Dogecoin and splurged on cars and designer goods, the report says.

Creator Joe Barton and star Paapa Essiedu take us on a time loop to delve into Season Two of The Lazarus Project

Dave Filoni is now Lucasfilm's chief creative officer for Star Wars.

If Zack Snyder’s new movie, Rebel Moon, which opens mid-December and just released a trailer, looks a lot like a Star Wars movie, that’s not an accident. Snyder originally pitched it as one, and hasn’t been shy about admitting it.

“It was Seven Samurai in space,” Snyder told Empire magazine in March. “And a Star Wars movie was my original concept for it.”

This was ten years ago, just after Disney bought Lucasfilm. Snyder pitched a new Star Wars adventure with all new characters, but says Lucasfilm turned him down when he was adamant that it should be rated R. (Rebel Moon is set for a PG-13 rated limited theatrical run followed by a Netflix release a week later, with a planned R-rated extended cut to follow).

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first gam...

1998's 'Godzilla' got a lot of things wrong. Here are five mistakes the writer says future filmmakers need to avoid repeating.

Star Wars could use something fresh and new.

Doctor Who enters a transformative era with Russell T. Davies at the helm, confirming its significant shift to Disney+ in 2024, a daring decision for the esteemed British science-fiction series. After reigning as a sci-fi TV favorite for sixty years, the series is making a comeback, complete with a significant alteration that has provoked a range of responses from fans worldwide. This change comes as Davies, the visionary behind the series' successful revival in 2005, retakes the helm. Doctor Who is set to release new episodes on Disney+ for audiences beyond the U.K. and Ireland, but with a decreased number of episodes per season.

Blade Runner has several different endings.

J.J. Abrams once named a 'Star Wars' character as a reference to his love for the Beastie Boys and to his involvement in co-creating 'Lost.'

Anarchy in action or a free society

How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images).

-Paul Rajlich

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While talking about the sci-fi genre and the films of directors like Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino named the popular sci-fi movie he calls "dumb".