The US military’s tiniest drone feels like it flew straight out of a sci-fi film (www.popsci.com)
This drone is small, quiet, and highly maneuverable. Back in April, it even explored the collapsed parking garage in New York City.
This drone is small, quiet, and highly maneuverable. Back in April, it even explored the collapsed parking garage in New York City.
The X-Files is turning 30, and we have a fun list of books about monsters and aliens to help Mulder and Scully celebrate!
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive. The Sickness... Most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail. I apparently took detailed notes on sickness and delirium. I have no precise...
CW: Singing clones. Screaming clones. Santa clones. Ron Perlman speaking French. Steampunk cyborg cultists. Orphan mafia. Kidnapping AND kids napping. Teddy bear abuse. Passive-aggressive brain in a tank. Conjoined crime boss. Explosive death by seagull....
CW: references to abortion, eugenics, pregnancy, forced birth, violations of personal autonomy, dystopia, and horror....
CW: They killed Fritz! Nazi mutants watching lots of Nazi propaganda. Elves with PTSD. Nuclear Armageddon. Pajama wearing assassins. Fairies of the night wearing near nothing. Evil Nazi wizard who skipped arm day....
The front door closed behind him and I locked it. I adjusted the thermostat and turned off all the lights. I felt lonely almost at once. Ken installed and activated me on Saturday and we spent the whole weekend together getting to know one another. And now for the first time I had to face being unoccupied. All alone for ten...
When the fastest woman ever built is dragged outside of reality by her ex-boyfriend, she's got to pull herself together across four parallel worlds before a hive-mind can take over the planet....
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ, Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 Japanese post-apocalyptic anime fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982 manga. It was animated by Topcraft for Tokuma Shoten and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toei Company. Joe...
Karel Čapek’s last major novel, War with the Newts, is a satirical dystopian masterpiece, both prescient and timeless, uniquely Czech and yet universal in appeal. Published in 1936, it remains one of the most thought-provoking novels ever written....
CW: Multiple explosive decompressions...
"You're all hairless apes? How disgusting."...
Brilliant colorwork from this Polish artist, and perfect for our #Space_Cowboy convention....
A society where humanity has entered into sloth, concerned only that its entertainment remain uninterrupted. An enemy capable of masquerading as beautiful women, yet burn like paper, hell-bent on invading Earth. A hero branded an outlaw, boasting a true man's determination and unwilling to let his beloved planet fall....
Multiple CWs: Angelica Houston dual wielding swords in leather. A young and old Ron Perlman. Genital mutilation. Baby donkeys. Adult donkeys. 80s racism and sexism with comeuppances of varying proportions. Pirate monster trucks with laser cannons. Space unicorns. Space Amazons. Space herpes. One incredibly tasteless rape joke....
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 American science fiction film produced and directed by W.D. Richter and written by Earl Mac Rauch. It stars Peter Weller in the title role, with Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd. The...
Cowboy Bebop (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu) is a Japanese neo-noir space Western[12] anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto,...
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughan and David Warner. The film tells the story of a young boy taken on an adventure through time...
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It is the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an...
The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science fiction neo-noir film written and directed by Josef Rusnak, and produced by Roland Emmerich through his Centropolis Entertainment company. It is loosely based upon Simulacron-3 (1964), a novel by Daniel F. Galouye, and a remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s miniseries World on a Wire...
History and science fiction collide in these historical science fiction books where the future is retro and retro is the future.
Good news everyone, we've found some great sci-fi shows for you to watch while you wait for the new season of Futurama.
SFF provides a way of re-envisioning disability, challenging ableism head-on and creating new stories. Here are some to get you started....