io9 has the first look at The Art and Science of Arrival, a detailed behind-the-scenes exploration of Denis…
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Arrival is the kind of science fiction film we dream of. It’s got big stars, a bigger concept, and the longer it…
The first trailer from Arrival, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the Ted Chiang short story Story Of Your Life is…
A linguist and a theoretical physicist are the stars of the latest movie from the director of Sicario and the…
HOLD UP. Is Hollywood actually planning a genre movie that's not a sequel or reboot? Signs point to yes, since…
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Ted Chiang explains everything to you! If you're in Washington State, you ought to make a beeline to the University of Puget Sound, where Ted Chiang will give a talk on "Technology and the Narrative of the Self" on Tuesday.
An incredible deal. The latest Humble Book Bundle, focusing on Subterranean Press, is just chock full of greatness. Including Connie Willis, Dan Simmons, Harlan Ellison, Cherie Priest, Jack Vance, Ted Chiang, and tons more. [h/t Reddit]
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Unless you've commanded a starship, fought off an alien invasion or survived a global disaster, your life…
Science fiction and fantasy readers are in a constant dialogue with their favorite stories. At conventions,…
You've probably never heard of Alfred Korzybski, but he was famous in the mid-20th century. He didn't just invent a…
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Many of the world's greatest scientists were inspired to go into their fields by reading science fiction books. And…
Over at The Economist, there's a great essay about one of our most essential writers, Ted Chiang. And it has a…
The arrival of a new piece of short fiction by Ted Chiang is always cause for celebration and parades and wild…
Hollywood's addiction to remakes and reboots continues unabated, with dozens of films in development. And meanwhile,…
Nowadays, everybody says that science fiction has stopped talking about Big Ideas. Science fiction used to be the…
The 2011 Hugo Award winners were just announced, and it's a good year for time-travel stories, including Connie…
Ted Chiang's novella The Life Cycle of Software Objects takes a breathtakingly fresh approach to the development of…
Want to help make the future of science fiction more diverse — and possibly win an e-book reader full of amazing…
Science fiction's full of wishful thinking about artificial intelligence: It'll spring up on its own. It'll become…