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BFG Podcast #202: SXSW, ‘Project Hail Mary,’ and Guy Fieri’s ‘Tournament of Champions’
Neal Pollack, Omar Gallaga, Dan Friedman, and Robert Dean talk food, film, and the future of humanity
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The Sci Fi Short Story That Rocked Wall Street
Citrini became famous overnight by its dystopian tale of artificial intelligence
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When Life Becomes a Video Game
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With ‘All That We See or Seem’ a Hugo and Nebula winner launches a new series set in a near-future world of AI
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‘Firefly’ Talk is Back
Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western still inspires discource decades after a truncated single season on FOX
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BFG Podcast #034: Spider-Man, Sex and the City, and the Year’s Best Science Fiction Books
Our editor and writers slice through the culture
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