‘M3GAN’ Makes Us Ask (Again): Who’s Afraid of Dancing Robots? In the movie “M3GAN,” a robot doll’s sinister virtuosity plays on the mixture of amusement and deep unease that dancing robots often provoke.
A Legendary World-Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities How the fantasy and science-fiction writer N.K. Jemisin thinks about people and difference in our complex world.
This Is the Kind of Storytelling That Economics Needs Science fiction opens the mind to other ways the world could be.
A Festival That Conjures the Magic of H.P. Lovecraft and Beyond At the Rhode Island event, revelers danced to murder ballads and celebrated all things weird. They even found time to reckon with the writer’s racism.
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present “Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years ago to become indelible and influential.