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a peek into the minds of your future robot overlords
Maybe it’s the pessimistic Eastern European in me, but the science fiction universe I find to be most reflective of reality is Warhammer 40,000. Set in the far future, it centers around humans trying...
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world of weird things podcast: planes, trains, and automobiles (of the future)
According to science fiction, the 2020s were supposed to be an era of autonomous flying cars and jetpacks zipping around massive cities that looked like forests of glass, steel, and concrete. Now that...
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the hypothetical economics of a new world order
Illustration by K. J. Garbutt When writing Shadow Nation, those whom I asked for creative advice pretty much assumed that any story set a thousand years in the future or more has to have Earth with...
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your weird forecast for 2017
Back in the day when I started this blog, the end of the year was a time to open up the stats dashboard and mine through some interesting insights to see what was popular, how, and why, and as things...
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sci-fi saturday: 07.22.2579
The small robot’s tracks softly crunched their way down the rocks and sand, into the shallow crater toward its destination. Its cameras and sensors made thorough 3D maps of the terrain while carefully...
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sci-fi saturday: 06.16.2887
With a soft ding, a tray with scrambled eggs and toast rose from the center of the table on the massive panoramic observation deck. The two humans ate breakfast while watching clouds of dust on the...
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sci-fi saturday: 06.27.2787
Normally, when you’re in the middle of an alien solar system, you might lose a satellite when a stray space rock too big to deflect slams into it fast enough. There are procedures to detect the...
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world of weird things podcast: the realistic hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
Illustration by Nate Hallinan Imagine for a moment if you couldn’t go much faster than 10% of the speed of light and that taking a really, really long nap in a cryogenic tank was out of the question....
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world of weird things podcast: sci-fi’s worst weapons
Science fiction universes have an impressive array of horrifying weapons. From antimatter bombs to plasma rifles, to the many iterations of death stars, fictional characters often face certain death...
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world of weird things podcast: qanon’s sci-fi cure for everything that ails you
Tired of doctors telling you to see specialists, wait for test results, and run across town to five different facilities to get different treatments? Social media conspiracy theorists have a much...
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