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The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (So Far) August 19, 2024
The opening page of Malka Older’s new book says simply, “There are other ways to live.” That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on ...
Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi Traditionalist March 22, 2024
The science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury holds an unusual place in American letters. Ignored or undervalued by a sizable portion of the critical elite during his lifetime, he nevertheless became one of the most popular and anthologized aut...
Dune: Part Two and the Death of Freedom March 07, 2024
Those who went to Dune: Part Two expecting a happy ending must have left the theater rather confused. For those unfamiliar with Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking sci-fi novels, the story of a young prince whose father is killed by a rival family and who...
A Casual Fan’s Guide to Dune: Part 2 March 05, 2024
Dune has been one of cinema’s white whales for decades. The first book in the massively popular, wonderfully heady, and deeply weird sci-fi saga arrived in 1965, under the aegis of author Frank Herbert. The novel would go on to sell more than 20 mill...
Denis Villeneuve Talks About the Road to ‘Dune 2’ March 04, 2024
You’d be hard-pressed to find a filmmaker who has put together a finer body of work than Denis Villeneuve has since making his U.S. debut in 2013. From the mold-breaking thrillers of Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario to a murderers’ row of sci-fi films in...
The Resurrections of 'Doctor Who' November 22, 2023
The publicists at the BBC weren’t thrilled, one imagines, when their Doctor Who leading man spoke candidly about why he loved the program so much. “People always ask me, ‘What is it about the show that appeals so broadly?’” Peter Capaldi said in 2018...
Maniacal Visions November 22, 2023
The machines will try to eat us all.At least, that’s what Frank Herbert saw. In his famed 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune, one of the foundational myths is that of the Butlerian jihad, a war between man and the “thinking machines” that endeavored to replace ...
