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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey continues to influence sci-fi media, and an overlooked 2022 Image miniseries is a ...

This year has swung a wide arc through the world of speculative fiction, from alternate-earth kaiju to ghost mushrooms. While it was hard to select just five, this year’s “best of” has something for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sanjit Singh Dang is a California-based contributor who covers AI. This article is more than 3 years old. In December 2022, Cruise ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

From gender apocalypses to travelogues of living gods to oaths sworn while hair-washing, I had an amazing book haul this year. Reading time 1 minute While I’m not as voracious a reader as I used to be ...