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'Armada' is your must-read summer blockbuster novel

Summer, for many people, is a time of escape. Escaping school, vacationing to escape routine, turning on the AC to escape the heat, and, of course, escaping into a good book. To help with your summer escapism, this month our social book club Mashable...

This Game Generates the Infinity of Space With an Algorithm

Sean Murray, one of the creators of the computer game No Man’s Sky, can’t guarantee that the virtual universe he is building is infinite, but he’s certain that, if it isn’t, nobody will ever find out. “If you were to visit one virtual planet every se...

Why Science Fiction Is the Wrong Model for Imagining the Future

Self-driving cars, extreme life extension, and global wifi provided by weather balloons: Google makes projects that sound like science fiction into reality at its secretive research lab, Google X. And that may be exactly the problem. Google finally a...

Explosive 'RoboCop' Trailer Spotlights How Man Became Machine

RoboCop, the crime-fighting cyborg that sci-fi fans first grew to love on the big screen in the 1980s, is back in the long-delayed RoboCop reboot's first movie trailer. After a car explosion gruesomely injures police officer Alex Murphy (played by Jo...

Is 'Star Trek' Technology Still Light Years Away?

In the age of iPads, flying cars and space rovers, some gadgets that were once confined to the science-fiction world are quickly becoming commonplace 21st-century commodities. Star Trek, which aired its first episode more than 40 years ago on NBC, st...

5 Futuristic Inventions We Wish Existed

Who would have thought Total Recall's prediction of driverless cars or The Truman Show's forecasting of the rise of reality TV would actually come to pass? But other predictions from futurists and Hollywood visions of hoverboards, flying cars and spa...

When Will Humans Upload Their Brains to Computers?

In the new techno-thriller Upload, a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world...

Helm Your Own Ship With Friends in This Cross-Platform Game

If you've ever wanted reason to shout "Full power to deflector shields!" or "Get ready to make the jump to light speed," you might need to give this Kickstarter a look. Quintet is a five-player party game that puts gamers on the bridge of a spaceship...

Sci-Fi Short Explores the First Intersteller Space Travel

What if we could send functioning human brains directly into space, using them as intelligent storage devices capable of beaming images and data -- in dream form -- back to Earth? That's the premise of this unusual sci-fi short, which fakes being a d...

Get Your Sci-Fi Fix With This Gritty Aliens Short Film

Get your Mother's Day-flavored sci-fi fix in this thrilling short. Aliens have invaded our planet, and they're out to destroy our race. We've all seen this movie before. But in this gritty, surprisingly good sci-fi short, things are actually a little...

The Science and Fiction of 'Oblivion'

Oblivion, the sci-fi mind-bender topping the box office charts this week, is the first big popcorn movie of the season. Set in the year 2077, the film stars Tom Cruise and is notable for being an original story by director Joseph Kosinski – not a fra...

Why Steven Moffat Rules Tumblr Fandom

If Joss Whedon is king of the nerds, then Steven Moffat is fandom’s evil overlord. He may not be a household name in the U.S. (yet), but in the world of Tumblr, things are a little different. Along with MTV’s cult hit Teen Wolf, Tumblr fandom is rule...

See How the Sci-Fi Cities of 'Looper' Were Created

One of the best parts of sci-fi movies is to take a peek at the future and see how it might look. We loved movies like Back to The Future Part 2 (flying cars! 3D sharks in the middle of the city!) and Blade Runner (robots everywhere!) for that reason...

22-Year-Old's Sci-Fi Digital Short Gets Hollywood's Attention

Science fiction movies are among the hardest and most expensive films to make in Hollywood. You need a big budget and a lot of people working on it. But not if you're Kaleb Lechowski. The 22-year-old German who studies digital film design made his ow...

Which Movie Had the Sloppiest Science in 2012?

Science in sci-fi movies is rarely all that accurate. We get that. It's OK. Space battles wouldn't be nearly as cool on screen if there weren't any impossible explosions taking place in a vacuum. But some movies take their disregard for the basic pri...

Science Fiction Dreams That Came True in 2012

As a longtime reader of science fiction, it's always interesting to see how the visions of writers eventually become real. Take Arthur C. Clarke's letter to Wireless World in 1945, which details the geostationary communications satellite network ever...

Brooklyn Bookstore Turns Vintage Sci-Fi Novels Into E-Books

Brooklyn-based bookstore Singularity & Co. is resurrecting vintage science fiction titles by tracking down their copyright holders and getting permission to make them available in DRM-free PDF, Epub and Moni format. Each month, the store, together wi...
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