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10 Sci-Fi Books Where Humans Are The Bad Guys

In these sci-fi novels, we were the alien invaders the whole time.

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Classic Sci-Fi Books (That Still Hold Up)

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

The Mary Sue

Could time travel tourism be the next space tourism? (op-ed)

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past.

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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existence

The Guardian - UK

Could humanity be extinct within 10,000 years? A new book is the wake up call our species needs

In H.G. Wells’ dystopian 1895 novel The Time Machine an unnamed Victorian scientist travels to the year 802,701. Instead of finding a flourishing, enlightened human civilisation reaping the cumulative benefits of millennia of economic and intellectual growth, he finds a horror scene. Here, gentle humans called Eloi are now the…

The Conversation

25 books that should have never been made into movies

It's a wonder Hollywood even bothered adapting these novels, writes Jacob Stolworthy and Adam White

The Independent UK

70 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Writer Defined A Hollywood Golden Age

From the depths of the ocean to the center of the Earth, Jules Verne's impact on science fiction remains massive today.

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Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’

The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb

The Guardian - UK

Netflix Just Quietly Added the Best Anti-Capitalist Sci-Fi Movie of the Century

Was this under-loved science fiction flick ahead of its time? Here's why 'Elysium' is worth another look on Netflix.

Inverse

45 Years Ago, a Forgotten Time-Travel Thriller Secretly Set the Stage for Star Trek's Biggest Hits

'The Wrath of Khan' and 'The Voyage Home' are two of the most beloved Star Trek films, and they have roots in a little-known sci-fi adventure starring none other than genre icon H.G. Wells.

Inverse

A college course that’s a history of the future

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours

The Guardian - UK

The Ultimate Guide To 50 Sci-Fi Essentials Under $25 On Amazon

Epic adventures, mind-bending tales, and futuristic thrills, all perfectly priced for your next journey.

Inverse

The 32 greatest time travel movies

You don't need a DeLorean to revisit these time travel gems

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The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop Is Alive And Well

In May 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked a firestorm by referencing the 2013 movie “Her” to highlight the novelty of the latest iteration of ChatGPT.

The Conversation

ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’

In May 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked a firestorm by referencing the 2013 movie “Her” to highlight the novelty of the latest iteration of ChatGPT.

Louder

“Every week, every month, I was doing something new… but fighting Martians has become a lifestyle for me”: Jeff Wayne on waging the relentless War Of The Worlds

Composer of prog’s greatest conceptual album – among many, many overshadowed works – recalls cutting the invaders’ language in half, casting Phil Lynott as a vicar and scraping his wife’s best pots for a tension-building sound effect

The Guardian - UK

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

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Shock of the old: 11 wild views of the future – from winged postmen to self-cleaning homes

Do you have to brush your own hair, own an umbrella or keep at least one hand on your steering wheel? Don’t blame these visionary thinkers

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny

Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view

The Guardian - UK

‘Destroying your home town is quite satisfying’: inside Michael Sheen’s explosive Welsh revolution thriller

New TV series The Way sees Sheen team up with documentary legend Adam Curtis and Sherwood writer James Graham – to start a rebellion. The team talk dirt, destruction and civil war

The Conversation

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Guardian - AU

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – this deeply moving book is his finest work

Blending memoir and history and auto-fiction, this brilliantly unique book by the Booker winner is a treatise on the immeasurability of life

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied

Inverse

You Need to Watch Tom Cruise's Best Sci-Fi Epic On Netflix ASAP

The invasion of Earth never looked this good. Here's why watching Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's alien epic is still worth your time.

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