Amazon’s been making some major genre plays in its original programming recently, but its latest grab is one of its…
In the 1660s the Irish chemist Robert Boyle made a list of 24 wishes: a page or two of solutions to all the…
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One of the most alluring dreams in science fiction is the post-scarcity society — a place or time where nobody…
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Every few years, there's another essay insisting that irony is ruining culture. Hipsters and postmodernism have…
A lot of science fiction's most quotable authors do seem to write a ton of aphorisms — Robert A. Heinlein comes to…
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Iain M. Banks has joined a select group of science fiction creators who've received the ultimate tribute, of having…
Just a month before his passing, Iain M. Banks did a final interview with the Guardian, and it's a must-read in…
Over the weekend, author Iain M. Banks died of cancer — just two months after announcing that he had less than a…
We knew this day was coming, but we hoped that it wouldn't be so soon. Iain M. Banks, author of the Culture series, T…
Iain M. Banks has had two astoundingly great careers — with the middle initial, he's one of the most influential and…
It's summer movie season, the time when blockbuster films come out every week and we pit Vin Diesel against…