Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: August 13, 2014

God Emperor of Dune by DarkBydloArt



Interview: MIT Technology Review interviews Gene Wolfe, author of The Land Across.

Interview: Startrek.com interviews Ronald D. Moore, showrunner of Outlander.

7 Black Women Science Fiction Writers Everyone Should Know.

15 reasons Outlander is secretly a Battlestar Galactica remake

A.K. Easton on Hoiw Outlander combines genres in a satisfying mash-up.

After the success of The Guardians of the Galaxy, What does Marvel do next?


Artificial Intelligence Potentially More Dangerous To Humans Than Nuclear Weapons, says Elon Musk. Here’s a guy who knows what’s up.

Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here

Dystopian Fiction: 8 Doomsday Books and “No More Avatars”

Enterprise was forever torn between our future and Star Trek’s past

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival that his teachers said sci-fi would rot his mind. “When I was 12 or 13, I had teachers take away science fiction books by [Robert A.] Heinlein and [Isaac] Asimov and say: ‘You’re a smart kid, you get good grades. Why are you reading this trash? They rot your mind. You should be reading Silas Marner.’” I like to imagine he eventually wrote those teachers into his books so they could die terribly.

Guardians of the Galaxy and Chasing The Diversity Unicorn

Guardians of the Galaxy is The First Post-Origin Comic Book Movie

Guardians of the Galaxy Looks Like Quite the Sci-Fi Flick Blockbuster, but… it’s a pretender.

“I am Groot”: The secret environmental messaging buried in Guardians of the Galaxy.

In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home. Steve Erickson on where technology leads to exile.

Modern Technology Did Not Kill Spy Films Because They Aren’t About the Technology

Outlander could be a game-changer for the Starz network

Space Opera 101, or How to Cure Your Zombie Obsession and Learn to Love Humanity.

Star Trek Writer David Mack’s Defense of Diversity in Sci-Fi Is Damn Near Perfect

Telecommuting, and the artificial property bubble that killed sci-fi’s great dream: Science-fiction’s cherished vision of cyberspatial workplaces are within our grasp; we have the infrastructure and the technology. But now that the very bricks of cities such as London are the new ‘gold’, decentralisation would have to be preceded by another financial apocalypse…

Tractor Beams Are No Longer Science Fiction. Now science needs get me one for my wrist so that I never have to reach for anything again. Please, please, please.

"Twenty-five years after its release, The Abyss remains an oddity in director James Cameron's filmography. But the fact that it's an oddity seems like an oddity. The underwater sci-fi epic, about a team of commercial drillers who stumble upon a deep-sea alien civilization, wasn't a flop by any means. It made more money than The Terminator and came very close to matching Aliens at the box office. It holds a higher critical rating than Avatar and Titanic (according to the almighty Rotten Tomatoes, at least). And yet it has utterly failed to reach the same levels of cultural saturation as Cameron’s other works."

What Made Guardians of the Galaxy So Darn Good?

Wired examines The Troubling, Subversive Promise of the New Show Outlander

The world’s smartest scientists worry we live in The Matrix (yes, really). I’m now more depressed than ever that I don’t know Kung Fu. What do they know that we don’t? 

You’ve Got to Hide Your Feelings Away: Why We Buy Into Emotional Dystopias.


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