Amazon Is Adapting Octavia E. Bulter’s ‘Wild Seed’ Into A TV Series | ScienceFiction.com Amazon Prime Video is partnering with JuVee Productions to develop a series based on Octavia E. Bulter’s sci-fi book ‘Wild Seed’, from her ‘Patternist’ series. https://sciencefiction.com/2019/03/28/amazon-is-adapting-octavia-e-bulters-wild-seed-into-a-tv-series/
Category Archives: Novels
How Philip K. Dick’s Fiction Lived Up to Modern Science – Northrop Grumman
How Philip K. Dick’s Fiction Lived Up to Modern Science – Northrop Grumman Philip K. Dick inspired a generation with his sci-fi books and stories. Yup. PKD. https://now.northropgrumman.com/how-philip-k-dicks-fiction-lived-up-to-modern-science/?fbclid=%5B%27IwAR3SkitX1PMWzo-BNqk-CdZaDgPVOLkIVsfP05xWMNg8_OO3p3AGmQ2eHPo%27%5D
A History of Robotics: Yan Shi the Artificer
A History of Robotics: Yan Shi the Artificer 1023 BC The Lie Zi text is an ancient philosophical volume of stories which is believed by Chinese and Western scholars to have been … https://blog.salvius.org/2014/01/a-history-of-robotics-yan-shi-artificer.html
What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us?
What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? Writers of speculative fiction routinely invent rules and regulations as part of their novels’ worlds. These laws tell us more about our own politics than you might think. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/books/review/ben-winters.html
Science Fiction and Myth
Science Fiction and Myth This intensive, online writing workshop explores the theme of the Intersections: Science Fiction, Fairy Tales and Myth in a series of modules designed to prompt story generation over the course of … Ooooh! SFF and Myth writing workshop!
Infoporn: 100 Years of Sci-Fi, Explored
Infoporn: 100 Years of Sci-Fi, Explored Using data scraping, network analysis, and machine learning, the Science Fiction Concept Corpus includes more than 2,600 books written since 1900. Here’s what we found. https://www.wired.com/story/infoporn-100-years-of-sci-fi-explored/
China’s blockbuster The Wandering Earth is coming to Netflix
China’s blockbuster The Wandering Earth is coming to Netflix China’s first major science fiction epic has become its second-biggest film release, earning more than $600 million. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/21/18234819/netflix-the-wandering-earth-china-science-fiction-blockbuster-cixin-liu-film
Using science fiction to understand the future of the web | ZDNet
Using science fiction to understand the future of the web | ZDNet Eliot Peper’s near-future SF novels ask questions about social media, the internet, and the future of government. https://www.zdnet.com/article/using-science-fiction-to-understand-the-future-of-the-web/
10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out this February
10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out this February New stories from Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18213841/science-fiction-fantasy-recommendations-charlie-jane-anders-iu-le-guin-books-february-2019
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño review – a hymn to Mexico City
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolaño review – a hymn to Mexico City It may not have been intended for publication, but the novel’s exuberant spirit offers an insight into Bolaño’s later work https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/15/spirit-of-science-fiction-roberto-bolano-review