Scott Timberg's posts

By now, the apocalypse story – which goes back at least as far as the ancient Hebrews – has fractured into numerous…

An old trope of science fiction, from Asimov to the Teminator series, is the robot uprising. But robots have…

A classic population explosion novel, Robert Silverberg's The World Inside, with a contrarian point of view and…

This week an intriguing new film, Utopia in Four Movements, screened at Sundance. It explores the way people in the…

A new film based on Philip K. Dick's posthumous, roughly autobiographical novel, Radio Free Albemuth, has begun…

Any theories on why science-fiction theater tends to be so lame? Does the naturalism of the stage thwart suspension…

Was this giant glowing aerial presence just a satellite — or a sign of intelligent life in the universe? That's what…

We've seen it in science-fiction books and movies before — the urban dystopia where living space has shrunk to…

Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel, Galileo's Dream, takes the titanic astronomer-mathematician from Renaissance Italy…

The long rise of Philip K. Dick's reputation, from out-of-print obscurity during much of the '70s and '80s to…

Though mermaids and mermen are usually found in fantasies and fairy tales, they make a fair number of appearances…

David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune, with its grotesque baron, lithe Sting and pre-Blue Velvet Kyle McLachlan,…

Over at Conceptual Fiction, music writer Ted Gioia asks, "Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s anticipate…

Anti-gay marriage activists have argued vigorously that children need a mother and father. Now a new research study…

Sometimes things don't work out. Like the Edsel. Here's a bunch of extinct animals that didn't quite make it either.

Don't you hate it when you can't get that pesky alien implant out of your groin? Dr. Roger Leir is here to help.

A Boy and His Dog, a rarely-screened, trippy post-apocalyptic film based on a novella by Harlan Ellison, will be…

Have trouble blinking? Your troubles may soon be over.

Apparently the classic novel Deep River, by Shusaku Endo, will play an important role — of some kind — in Lost's…

Despite its long opposition to nuclear power, the Golden State may soon be building several nuclear power plants -…