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Two of the year's biggest blockbuster sci-fi flicks have trailers out today: One shows an optimistic, anodyne future, the other's a blood-stained apocalypse.

Reality, crappy as it is, exceeds our expectations every now and then.

In the future, daylight savings time can bring on the apocalypse.

A feminist take on the story of Buddha, as told through video games.

Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

We’ve been living on this barely-floating oil rig grease trap for a century. And what do we have to show for it? Fuck all.

A hellish vision of what it will be like to attend CES on its 100th anniversary, courtesy of Sam Biddle.

Yiwu, China. June 2024. Dispatch from the future factory of Christmas.

The most talked-about sci-fi films of 2014.

She never knew what it was, exactly, whether her copper skin or long black braid or some inflection in her voice that was not sufficiently deferential. And soon they'd be gliding through the nuclear desert.