Science Fiction

Hollywood Gets Aliens All Wrong, Famed E.T. Hunter Says

Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Jill Tarter, SETI Institute, Video, E.T., Sci Fi Movie, Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Alien, Seti, Science Fiction, Movies, Science News

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/25/2012 10:14 AM EDT on SPACE.com Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won't ...

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ReThink Review: Men in Black 3 - Agents J & K Are Back, But Y?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Josh Brolin, Men in Black 3, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jemaine Clement, Rethink Reviews, Will Smith, Barry Sonnenfeld, Science Fiction, Tommy Lee Jones, Video, Entertainment News

Why, ten years after an underperforming sequel, is there a Men In Black 3? Are there burning questions about agents J (Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) that were left unresolved? Is there an arch-nemesis still on the loose?

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This Sci Fi Device Could One Day Be Real

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Bessel Beam, Video, Singapore, Real Life Tractor Beam, Star Trek Tractor Beam, Real-Life Tractor Beam, Star Trek Laser, Laser, Science Fiction, Tractor Beam, Working Tractor Beam, Star Trek, Lasers, Technology News

Tractor beams, a common theme in science fiction fantasy, may one day become science fact. Researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology...

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Books: Kim Stanley Robinson's Latest Sci-Fi Gem 2312

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Video, Science Fiction Books, Kim Stanley Robinson, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Sci Fi Books, Books News

Robinson's story is gripping, funny, and rich with vivid characters. It describes a possible future in such vivid and exciting ways you can't wait for it to arrive. But Robinson doesn't just spell out future possibilities; he inhabits them.

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Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2012

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

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Romney Admits Sci-Fi 'Guilty Pleasure'

Politico | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Politics News, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Scifi, Politics News

Newt Gingrich wanted to establish a moon colony, but it’s Mitt Romney who’s the sci-fi geek. The former Massachusetts governor and now presumpt...

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5 Reasons the Future Is Better Without Jetpacks or Flying Cars

Nick Hurwitch | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Traffic, Martin Jetpack, Henry Smolinski, Flying Cars, Quantum-Locking, Road Traffic, Future, Air Traffic, Science Fiction, Traffic Accidents, The Future, Jetpacks, Science News

Here are five reasons why you should just buy your "environmentally friendly" vehicle of choice and stop holding your breath for a flying future that will never come.

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Will Harry Potter-Style 'Invisibility Cloak' Make Real-World Appearance?

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Invisible Man, Video, Science, Harry Potter, Science News, Invisibility Cloak, Science Fiction, Invisibility Technology, Star Trek, Being Invisible, Science News

By: Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor Published: 05/15/2012 01:08 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's ...

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Engineer Wants Us To Build Real-Life Starship Enterprise

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.14.2012

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A systems and electrical engineer who goes by BTE-Dan says we should build the USS Starship Enterprise and claims we can do it -- today. Nancy Atki...

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'Blade Runner' Futurist's Art Exhibiiton

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Syd Mead, Video, Art Meets Science, Bravinlee Programs, Futurism, Futuristic Design, Aliens, Tron, Blade Runner, Visionary, Slideexpand, Utopia, Science Fiction, Star Trek, Arts News

Science fiction has often held a mirror to our society in order to teach us about our evolution (or regressive behavior). We probably owe many of our...

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2001: A Space Odyssey: Art vs. 2012 Reality

David H. Bailey | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Siri, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, Voice Recognition, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movies, Artificial Intelligence, Tablets, Science News

What is missing is a sales pitch -- like the arms race but ideally less grim -- that made possible the Apollo program. Time will tell when and how the 2001 vision will be realized, and if it will be human or robotic. In the meantime, we all can dream.

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Star Wars Day - An Interview with Darth Maul: Sam Witwer

Bryan Young | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: MAY 4TH, The Clone Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Star Wars Day, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, Sam Witwer, Sith Lord, Cartoon Network, Science Fiction, Entertainment News

Fans should be very happy that Sam Witwer is the man behind the voice of Darth Maul on The Clone Wars. I got a chance to talk to him about his role, and you can tell instantly he's a fan of the material and the character.

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Imaginary Places

Lindsay Edmunds | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Mind Uploading, The Social Network, Second Life, Artificial Intelligence, Transcendence, Heaven, Apocalyptic AI, Mind Fire, Science Fiction, Books News

Living on the Internet is one of the thousand-mile-high ideas explored by Robert M. Geraci in his book Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality.

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53 Reasons Why We Need A New Star Trek TV Series

Kris LoPresto | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Star Wars, JJ Abrams, Star Trek Movie, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek J.J. Abrams, Star Trek Paramount, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Star Trek TV Series, Star Trek, Home News

When the Battlestar Galactica prequel show wasn't picked up by SyFy, it became a painful reality that there are no adventures in outer space on the tube. Here are just a few reasons as to why we need a Star Trek TV show. Paramount executives, please listen up.

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Mad Men: Rounding Some Hairpin Plot Curves

William Bradley | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Jaguar, Mattthew Weiner, Alison Brie, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Mad Men, Richard Nixon, Science Fiction, Entertainment News

This week's Mad Men offered up a much more insular episode, though the sense of decay and decline in New York which I wrote about earlier in the season is evident.

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Time Travel Happens HOW Often?

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Quantum Physics, Quantum, Video, Time Travel, Time, The Time Machine, Physics, Science, Physics of Time, Technology, Science Fiction, Time Machine, Science News

By: Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor Published: 04/16/2012 12:32 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's L...

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'Star Trek' Gizmo Inspires New Real-World Device

Reuters | Frank Simons | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Video, Tricorder, Spock, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Mccoy, Star Trek, Sci-Fi Movies, Science News

By Frank Simons LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think "Star Trek" technology is only the stuff of...

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Forbidden Planet: Space Is the Place (for More Colonialism)

Network Awesome | Posted 05.23.2012

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Forbidden Planet has its place among the best science fiction movies. This place is due to its influence rather than its initial reception, though.

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Neurotechnology: Science Fiction or Applied Science?

Matthew D. Erlich, M.D. | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Brain Science, Psychology, Brain Scan, Applied Science, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Brain Imaging, Neuropsychology, Neurotechnology, Neurology, Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Science News

As science makes a reality of what has been science fiction, we will face questions of how to best apply neurotechnologies. Should they be limited to helping those who have illnesses? Or should they bolster the performance of a wartime soldier, enable a C student to get As, or supercharge CEOs?

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The Hunger Games and the Politics of Food

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Hunger, Food Systems, Dystopia, Food Politics, Food, Popular Culture, HUnger Games, Film, Science Fiction, Culture News

In a consumer society where alternative food networks and associations have been built on the premise that we can change the food system one meal at the time and that eating is an agricultural act, Katniss' adventures remind us that, after all, we are poachers in somebody else's territory.

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Is "Psychohistory" Possible?

Quora | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Isaac Asimov, The Future, Quora, Science Fiction Books, Science Fiction, Psychohistory, Technology News

Is it possible and useful to mathematically formalize human behavior on large scales sufficient to probabilistically predict the future? This questio...

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Hisland and Herland: The Macho Mars of John Carter and Gilman's Feminist Utopia

Andromeda Romano-Lax | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Gilman, Burroughs, Science Fiction, John Carter, A Princess of Mars, Herland, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Books News

Burroughs was daring and desperate enough to imagine an alien planet. But Gilman, a Victorian-era survivor, imagined something even more bold: a time and place where gender alone would not doom a person to a life of prescribed confinement, drudgery, or madness.

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10 Sci-Fi Predictions That Became Reality

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.08.2012

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Events like Wednesday's announcement of the new iPad have become fairly old-hat in our super tech-savvy society. Not so long ago, these now ubiquit...

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WATCH: Could Robot 'Apocalypse' Wipe Out Humans?

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Dystopia, Matrix, Grey Goo, Doomsday, Terminator, Singularity, Science Fiction, Robots, Ai, Robot Apocalypse, Skynet, End of the World, Artificial Intelligence, Video, Science News

By: Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor Published: 02/24/2012 12:48 PM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's...

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Top 10 Young Adult Fantasy Books You Should Read

Lisa Parkin | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Young Adult Books, Teen Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, Book Recommendations, Dystopian Fiction, Reading, Steampunk, Young Adult Fiction, The Hunger Games, Books News

With The Hunger Games movie coming out in March, the frenzy for young adult fiction has reached an all-time high. For those of you who still haven't read young adult books, here are a few suggestions.

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