Science Fiction
It's the goal of many writers to influence human society, and science fiction frequently does just that. Sci-fi inspires technology, sci-fi (unfortunately) inspires cops, and sci-fi helps us process the history of our own planet. And sure, it's a genre that's ripe for cliche and overused tropes, but sometimes we love a tired trope. Speaking of tired tropes, did you know the “dark and stormy night” guy wrote sci-fi? Wild, right? We'd guessed horror, another genre oft-maligned for tired cliches. Don't listen to the haters, sci-fi and horror: we love you.
5 Sci-Fi Dystopias We've Actually Created (For Animals)
The far-flung science fiction worlds we've been watching for on the horizon have actually been here all along -- it's just that they're not happening to us. They're happening to the animals.
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- By Robert Brockway
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The 5 Most Ingenious Worlds Ever Invented by Science Fiction
In no other genre is setting as important as it is in science fiction: No matter how intricate the book's plot, or how chisel-jawed that Hollywood manpile on the movie's poster might be, the universe is always going to be the real star.
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- By Robert Brockway
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5 Absurd Sci-Fi Scenarios Science is Actually Working On
While it's easy to imagine watching the hopeful utopia of Star Trek and saying, 'Let's make that real!' it's a little stranger to think the same after watching Blade Runner or Gattaca. Yet here we are.
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- By Joe Oliveto
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4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction for You
I learned a few things while writing science fiction that I never realized while reading it -- some of which will ruin your favorite properties forever
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- By Robert Brockway
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Sci-Fi Stories for Badassed Men
Merry Christmas testosterone: Man Comics!
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- By Seanbaby
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5 Sci-Fi Medical Procedures We'll Have in Our Lifetime
Let's take a moment to marvel at the fact that we're not too far away from having fiction turn into reality.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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5 Sci-Fi Ad Techniques That Are About to Make Life Creepier
You've seen hundreds of ads today -- how many did you actually remember? Don't think for one second ad execs are going to let that continue.
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- By Dwayne Hoover
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5 Sci-Fi Technologies People Achieved By Hacking the Kinect
Kinect turned out to be a virtual puppy petting machine and awkward wedding-dance simulator. But some particularly handy people took a look at the Kinect and saw the true potential.
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- By Augusto Corvalan
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6 Terrifying Sci-Fi Predictions (About the Year 1997)
According to a lot of science fiction movies, comics and TV shows, 1997 was the single most eventful year in the history mankind. Why did they all pick 1997? Who knows? They certainly didn't anticipate the Spice Girls.
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- By Jim Ciscell
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6 Shockingly Affordable Sci-Fi Inventions
Who would ever deny you a loan to get one of these?
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- By Kenny Thompson
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6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
To make sci-fi stories work, the writers often have to add completely arbitrary and pointless limitations to whatever futuristic technology turns up. But in the name of plot and drama, they sometimes wind up giving the people of the distant future gear that doesn't even work as well as ours does now, in the boring old present.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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5 Real-World Mechs Straight out of Science Fiction
In science fiction, there's no problem a good giant robot suit can't solve. And yet, in reality, we all commute to work in dumb ol' cars, fight our wars with boring guns, and make bland love with our decidedly non-mechanical genitals. Where are our mechs, science? Where are our god damn mechs?! Oh wait, here they are. Sorry about that, Science.
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- By Robert Brockway
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6 Sci-Fi Technologies You'll Soon Have On Your Cell Phone
In the future, your phone and your life will be one and the same. Don't drop it in the toilet, is what we're saying.
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- By Mark Hill
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