Tag Archives: sci-fi

'R.E.M.' is a great example of the wonderful, creative works that can be produced through unorthodox sources of capital like Kickstarter. The sum total of the well-crafted story and stunning artwork of this graphic novel is a reminder of how far comics have evolved as a serious creative genre.

Maybe my sense of time has become warped but didn’t they just come out with an Apes movie only last year? Dawn of the Apes, eh? Sounds like they’re trying to play off of Dawn of the Dead, especially with that creepy, zombie-esque close-up shot of the ape. I dunno. The …

PopMythology.com's year-end album of some of the best cosplay from 2013 compiled from hundreds of photos taken at the year's biggest cons on dozens of websites and blogs.

Mash up "Groundhog Day" with "Starship Troopers," throw in some Philip K. Dickian existentialism and then garnish with Bourne-ish car chases and an exoskeleton borrowed from "Elysium" and you've got "Edge of Tomorrow."

NASA's "superhero" robot, Valkyrie, is here to do your bidding - until it attains sentience, that is, whereupon the future envisioned in "Terminator" and "Battlestar Galactica" shall be gloriously realized.

With the combination of a fascinating story, superior wit, and a traditional hard-boiled detective fiction plot swerve at the end, "Something More Than Night" makes for an all-around great read.

Madefire's motion book technology is a great way to appreciate these comics and IDW has done such a great job with presenting various incarnations of "Star Trek" as well as the new direction of "Transformers," that these are definitely comics to pick up, regardless of which generation you belong to.

We chatted with actor Cecil Baldwin, the voice of "Welcome to Night Vale," about fan response from within the LGBTQ community which seems to have partially driven the show's success.

"Catching Fire" lives up to its name, and although we don’t yet know if it’ll be the best of the Hunger Games movies, it does what every second chapter should: keep the story hot and spread its flames.

There’s one thing these imagined futures have in common: they all suck. So in this list of awful dystopias, we try to find the bright side of things. Mass infertility in "Children of Men"? Hey, no more worries about birth control!

I have been waiting ten years for Margaret Atwood's "MaddAddam" and it is worth the wait.

One of the best depictions of a gay relationship in the media is in a surreal horror-comedy podcast that came out of nowhere and has taken iTunes by storm, "Welcome to Night Vale."

'Ender’s Game' is a generally agreeable sci-fi popcorn flick, though one more likely to be enjoyed by kids just discovering the franchise than those who grew up on the books.

'Gravity' is one of the single most beautiful films ever made and the closest approximation most people will get to experiencing a space walk. After 90 minutes of weightless drifting the air in your lungs and the floor at your feet will feel wonderful.

'Lost Planet: First Colony' could succeed by either highlighting the ecological themes or by simply letting loose and having fun in true 'Starship Troopers'-style, so let’s hope these glimpses of promise we see begin to take center stage in forthcoming issues.