Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy. Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats. Argentine and Zambian writers. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/04/surveillance-science-fiction-colonializing-force/587863/
Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. A new book about the novel examines its relevance in the age of fake news and Trump https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/19/legacy-george-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four
Skyfire May 2012. India is hit by a series of freak weather disturbances and startling epidemics that threaten to bring the country to its knees. At the same time, children are disappearing from the slums in the capital and nobody seems to care. Stumbling upon these strange and seemingly unrelated incide… Indian SF https://www.amazon.in/Skyfire-Aroon-Raman/dp/9382616616
29 April 2019 Visit the post for more. A special issue of, and on, Nigerian SF http://strangehorizons.com/issue/29-april-2019/
Stellar sci-fi: India’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ killer cars and the Teixcalaanli empire New sci-fi: John Marrs’ “The Passengers,” Ashok Banker’s “Upon a Burning Throne,” Arkady Martine’s “A Memory Called Empire,” Mark Lawrence’s “One Word Kill.” Marrs, _The Passengers_ is like a “choose your own adventure” or Black Mirror’s “Bandersnatch”– you the reader get to choose who dies in self-driving car accidents. Yikes. https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-sci-fi-new-releases-20190508-story.html
I AM MOTHER | Official Trailer | Netflix She’ll keep you safe. Watch I AM MOTHER on Netflix June 7, 2019. A sci-fi thriller about a teenage girl (Clara Rugaard), who is the first of a new… Whoaaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5B%27N5BKctcZxrM%27%5D
Analysis | Jeff Bezos’s new plans for space have stirred up old fights in science fiction Is planet Earth all that we have, or do we need to go to the stars? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/10/jeff-bezoss-new-plans-space-have-stirred-up-old-fights-science-fiction/?utm_term=%5B%27.12ea6974b4b3%27%5D
Meet ‘Neon Future’, a Science Fiction Comic that Trades Cyber-Paranoia for Optimism Created by famous DJ Steve Aoki, the new sci-fi comic book narrates a story of human-machine coexistence, instead of cyber-apocalypse. Very curious to see this. Has anyone read it yet? Came out about 2 months ago. https://www.news18.com/news/tech/meet-neon-future-a-science-fiction-comic-that-trades-cyber-paranoia-for-optimism-2128799.html
Comic Archive: ‘We Stand On Guard’ (2015) In the comic series ‘We Stand On Guard,’ the intriguing question is posited: what if US and Canada went to war against each other? https://sciencefiction.com/2019/05/08/comic-archive-we-stand-on-guard-2015/
Interview: The Juicy Details and Dirty Secrets of Science Fiction’s Youth | Third Coast Review Hugo-Finalist Alec Nevala-Lee shares a behind-the-books perspective on SFF’s foundational authors Conducted by Terry Galvan Alec Nevala-Lee is a Hugo Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert … https://thirdcoastreview.com/2019/04/26/the-juicy-details-and-dirty-secrets-of-science-fictions-youth/