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12 Short Sci-Fi Stories to Make You Think Hard About the Future

Torie Bosch

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The Only Good Thing About Tenet Is Kenneth Branagh’s Gloriously Hammy Performance

Odie Henderson

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What if We Could Dream Our Way to a Scientific Breakthrough?

Hal Y. Zhang

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Doomsday Book Teaches Readers About Pandemics—and About Hope

Joelle Renstrom

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Star Trek: Discovery Hit the Reset Button, and It’s Paying Off

Daniel Schroeder

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Ready Player Two Is a Horror Story but Doesn’t Know It

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I Went to the Monolith in the Utah Desert

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Can Science Fiction Help Us Govern for the Future?

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Why Do Republican Senators Keep Saying Democrats Want America to Look Like Star Wars?

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The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories

Cory Doctorow

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Big Mother Can Be Just As Threatening As Big Brother

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Read a New Short Story About a Government Run Entirely by Machines

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Sept 26, 2020 10:00 AM

Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now

Rebecca Onion

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Movie Theaters Still Aren’t Safe. Tom Cruise Wants You to Go Back Anyway.

Phillip Maciak

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The New Bill & Ted Embodies the Gen X Adventure

Dana Stevens

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Christopher Nolan’s Latest Puzzle Movie Is Missing a Key Piece

Sam Adams

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Here’s What Critics Are Saying About Tenet

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How Scary Is Lovecraft Country?

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