The future is built on oil. Literally. New Arcadia is a “company town,” an independent nation state built on top of an oil rig off the coast of Canada. Like her debut novel, vN: The First Machine Dynasty, Madeline Ashby’s Company Town brings hard sci-fi sensibilities and big ideas about the fate of humanity in a technological future to a story filled […]

With the announcement of the new those-bad-sequels-never-happened Alien movie, it’s been forgivably easy to forget that Neill Blomkamp has a totally different sci-fi film coming out this week. Chappie is the story of the creation of a new form of thinking machine, and looks to be cresting a wave of new cinematic depictions of artificial intelligence. A.I. also plays a role in […]

This past weekend, Westworld began its second season, promising 10 more weeks of enigmatic plotting, biomechanical heroes and villains, corporate intrigue, player piano Radiohead covers, and the long, twisted path to consciousness. That also means 10 more weeks of waiting between episodes, a problem for which, as always, science—or science fiction anyway—ofers a solution. Here are […]

We’re back! After working from a remote igloo for a few weeks over the holiday break, we returned to the office to find our desks covered in enough packages to build a small fort (seriously, we tested it out). Let’s find out what forthcoming SFF books we found inside a few of them.