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It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ben Marshall, Callum Turner, Comedy, dystopian fiction, Julia Fox, King Princess, LeVar Burton, Logan's Run, Maya Hawke, Molly Ringwald, Monica Barbaro, movie review, One Night Only, rom-com, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction, sex comedy, The Purge, Will Gluck

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 6 Comments Alex Kurtzman, Captain Kirk, Captain Pike, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, episodic television, fandom, franchise filmmaking, Jeri Ryan, Klingons, media criticism, Michael Burnham, Mirror Universe, Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Stewart, Robert Picardo, science fiction, Section 31, serial storytelling, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Prodigy, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Starfleet Academy, Streaming Television, Television, The Next Generation, TV criticism, Voyager, William Shatner

How to understand the demise of NuTrek

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The Sci Fi Short Story That Rocked Wall Street

March 22, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments ai agents, ai and labor, ai disruption, ai economy, AI ethics, ai risk, artificial intelligence, automation, capitalism, citrini research, consumer economy, Darwin, dystopian fiction, financial commentary, financial markets, Freud, future of work, Galileo, ghost gdp, H.G. Wells, John Wyndham, Jonathan Swift, King Kong, market panic, science fiction, speculative fiction, Taylorism, the 2028 global intelligence crisis, unemployment, Wall Street, white collar jobs

Citrini became famous overnight by its dystopian tale of artificial intelligence

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‘Project Hail Mary’: Across the Ryanverse

March 17, 2026March 23, 2026 Dan Friedman 3 Comments 2001 a space odyssey comparison, alien buddy movie, alien communication, Amazon MGM Studios, Andy Weir, astronaut films, astrophage, book to film adaptation, Christopher Miller, deep space survival, Drew Goddard, first contact sci fi, lord and miller films, Phil Lord, Project Hail Mary, project hail mary movie, Ridley Scott, rocky eridian, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Hüller, sci fi movies 2026, sci-fi comedy, science fiction adaptation, space movies, spider verse creators, the lego movie creators, The Martian, the martian comparison

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are back, with an Andy Weir adaptation

When Life Becomes a Video Game

February 25, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Dungeon Crawler Carl, LitRPG, Matt Dinniman, science fiction

‘Operation Bounce House’ is an ambitious mixture of AIs, generation ships, social media and video games

When Yuri Gagarin Solves Who Killed Romeo and Juliet

February 1, 2026February 7, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Alastair Reynolds, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Arthur C Clarke Award, generation ships, Halcyon Years, hard-boiled mystery, noir science fiction, Rivers Solomon, space detective fiction, Welsh science fiction writers, Yuri Gagarin

Alastair Reynolds has a surprising amount of fun with a generation ship noir

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Assymetric Tunics Are a Mark of Status in the 32nd Century

January 18, 2026January 21, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments costume design in TV, Federation rebuilding, Genre Television, Jean-Luc Picard, Paramount Plus, Patrick Stewart, science fiction culture, Science Fiction TV, Star Trek, Star Trek canon, Star Trek future, Star Trek legacy, Star Trek television, Star Trek uniforms, Starfleet, Starfleet Academy, Television Criticism, The Burn, The Next Generation, TV aesthetics, TV reviews, worldbuilding

Starfleet Academy gets off to an uneven start

‘Exiles’ Is the Sci-Fi Novel I Need To Tell You About

December 30, 2025January 22, 2026 Dan Friedman 2 Comments Agatha Christie, Ambrose Bierce, Andy Weir, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Steven King

Mason Coile’s final novel is a taut, frightening read

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We Remain Largely Undefined

December 6, 2025December 12, 2025 Dan Friedman 0 Comments dystopian fiction, Friends references, Henry Holt and Co., language and identity, Matt Greene, The Definitions, Wayward comparison, West Side Story references

‘The Definitions’ turns amnesia into an unsettling mirror of our own era of disappearing history and manufactured truths.

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The Ghost in the Machine

November 11, 2025November 13, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Afrofuturism, AI ethics, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, Black authors, C.J. Farley, diversity in tech, Jamaican American characters, Who Knows You By Heart, William Morrow, workplace thriller

C.J. Farley’s ‘Who Knows You By Heart’ plumbs Big Tech’s soul

What’s Life Like, 26 Years Into the Fourth Millennium?

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments David X. Cohen, Family Guy, Futurama, Hulu season 3, Matt Groening, Mickey 17, Professor Farnsworth, Rick and Morty comparison, The Simpsons influence, Trump parody, USB dongle jokes, Zoidberg

‘Futurama’ tries to stay ahead of the competition

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0

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‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

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