Tonight, the Syfy channel will launch its latest big science fiction show: Nightflyers, based on a story from Game of Thrones author George R.R. Series showrunner Jeff Buhler explains that to bring the show to Syfy, the creative team had to make some changes to the original story. Martin’s Nightflyers and other Thousand Worlds stories lend themselves well to the current streaming environment. They like to binge on content.” He notes that Martin’s approach to creating vast, boundary-less worlds i

Here are 10 books hitting shelves this December that you can pick up as a last-minute present for the holidays. But there’s something wrong with Nellie, and they will have to work together to fix the broken source code. The Shattered Sun by Rachel DunneRachel Dunne’s Bound Gods series comes to an end with The Shattered Sun. December 11thTypeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave AddeyDave Addey’s new book takes a look at an element behind all science fiction f

The news comes in the wake of last month’s announcement that FilmStruck — the equally beloved cinephile streaming service — would close at the end of November (specifically the 29th, this coming Thursday). WarnerMedia and Criterion announced a new Criterion Collection streaming service, which is slated for launch in early 2019. While Kanopy doesn’t have quite the selection FilmStruck did, it does offer a wide variety of classic and contemporary movies — and as the New York Public Library jokingl

Flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes don’t usually get the same amount of attention as their longer counterparts, which is a shame. But, if longer-form fiction is what you’re after, here are 11 books that caught our eyes coming out in the latter half of November. Publishers Weekly calls the book exceedingly grim, but notes that “Selby has crafted a deeply imagined world.”Read an excerpt here. She has another book in the works right now, but her next will be her first collection of short

In the process, they’ve given us vivid examples of why folding phones could be more than the latest gadget gimmick or another screen to scratch. The ExpanseThe Expanse is an incredible work of science fiction in so many ways, but here’s a new one, assuming you accept my thesis: its “hand terminals” give us all three of the sci-fi benefits of folding screens in a single package. But I’m including it because I was surprised to find that there weren’t a lot of folding screens when I started looking

YA sci-fi, then, is akin to walking a razor’s edge authority-wise: be brilliant and naïve simultaneously, or risk losing your audience from the jump. Portland-based author Emily Suvada walks this line better than any YA author I’ve read with her in-progress trilogy, the second book of which, This Cruel Design, was published last month. Along with its predecessor, This Mortal Coil, the series rivals The Hunger Games for its whirlwind life-or-death drama, while giving the carefully crafted science

His latest, Red Moon, is set within spitting distance of today, envisioning the power struggle between an ascendant China and a declining United States. When the novel opens, a technician named Fred Fredericks is visiting the Moon for the first time, tasked with delivering a quantum-enabled phone to a Chinese client, governor Chang Yazu. Unfortunately, while all of that has the potential to be fascinating, Red Moon is a book that never really gels between all of its component parts. Tracked and

Apple marketing the iPad Pro as a gaming device makes sense: 60 percent of gamers play mobile games on a tablet, like the iPad Pro, according to a 2018 Nielsen survey. The iPad Pro is a great device that’s capable of powerful gaming, but it’s not a home console. “The iPad Pro is a great device that’s capable of powerful gaming.”That doesn’t mean the iPad Pro isn’t a good gaming machine. Having more ports of retro games or lite versions of popular games would make gaming on the iPad Pro more univ

Sony has officially licensed its PlayStation VR headset design to Lenovo, which is currently selling a headset that looks a whole lot like the PlayStation VR. The two-year patent licensing agreement, which was announced today, lets Lenovo use Sony’s design for its Mirage Solo headset. Lots of companies copied parts of that design — you can find PlayStation VR DNA in Samsung’s 2017 Odyssey headset, LG’s never-released SteamVR headset, and Lenovo’s earlier Windows Mixed Reality headset. The headse

Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 9, episode 4 below. All of this has made the upcoming death of lead character Rick Grimes such an unusual case. The Walking Dead still isn’t playing fair, but at least it’s doing it in an enjoyable rather than infuriating way. If the show sticks to its guns, this is an incredibly promising signYes, this could all be just another Walking Dead business-as-usual con. The old Walking Dead relied on tricks and promised gags to keep people watching; the ne

Historically, that’s a new development; science fiction was once a reviled genre, dismissed as juvenile trash or escapist nonsense. He was an eager collaborator who wanted to break from the world of science fiction magazines into Hollywood. When all was said and done, 2001: A Space Odyssey debuted to mixed reviews from confused journalists who didn’t understand what they watched. This engrossing history delves into the story of one of the genre’s best-known magazines, Astounding Science Fiction.

The release has been controversial because it not only seemed like YouTube was rewarding a problematic creator, but also that the company treats Logan Paul differently than other YouTubers. Why has Logan Paul been treated differently than Kjellberg? “Where is Scare PewDiePie season two?” Kjellberg asks. “Bring back Scare PewDiePie,” he demands. If it continues to refuse to release Scare PewDiePie, the YouTube community will be up in arms over the question of fairness.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic science fiction horror film that has scared audiences for decades. A researcher recently discovered an unpublished, novel-length manuscript of the story, and a small press is using Kickstarter to publish it. Campbell is best known as the long-time editor of Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog Science Fact and Fiction), one of the most influential science fiction magazines of all time. The story was later adapted in 1951 as The Thing from Another World,

Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy (and related nonfiction) books that are coming out later this month. Publishers Weekly says that it’s “heavy on rousing action scenes, political intrigue, and high AI weirdness.”Read an excerpt. Publishers Weekly says the book leaves “the reader deeply invested in the developing story, with plenty left to tell.”Read an excerpt here, here, here, and here. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it a “major work of popular culture scholarsh

At New York Comic Con this weekend, Amazon released the first look at its upcoming miniseries, Good Omens, based on the classic fantasy novel. At a press event, co-creator Neil Gaiman and members of the cast explained their approach to adapting the book for television. “I came back from his funeral and started writing the first episode of Good Omens,” he said, “and tried to convince myself that it was funny.”“I was writing them for a very specific audience, Terry Pratchett. That was my standard.

Steve Dymszo, CEO for the prop-making company, leans in to speak over the noise of the crowd. “What’s the problem?”“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do,” Hal responds. “You can go on and on with the rest of the sequence.”Announced earlier this year in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the iconic film’s release, the speaker system is an impeccable replica of the artificial intelligence’s hardware. It’s large, designed to be mounted on the wall, with Hal’s uncanny eye

When employees showed up for work on Friday, September 21st, at Telltale Games, there was nothing to suggest the day would be different than any other. In at least one instance, sources say that an employee had recently relocated cross-country to take a job at Telltale. Telltale’s head of HR told employees that because of the company’s financial strain, employees would not get severance pay. “It was something that Pete [Hawley] told us pretty much since he joined the team last year. “We were tol

YouTube is well aware this is a problem — it seems to come up every month as more creators are affected by the issue. Creators feel that they can’t take a break because they believe the platform favors steady, ongoing uploads, but YouTube itself disputes that this is the case. The data does little more than make YouTube feel like a system that could be gamified if you just knew the right combination of factors. YouTube takes burnout “very seriously,” Wyatt says, but there are also some steps tha

Twitch is now blocked in China. Last month, Twitch hit the No. 3 spot among free apps in China, as locals began downloading the app to watch e-sports matches at the Asian Games. While many citizens reported they could not, the site remained accessible yesterday for some in provinces spread throughout northern and southern China, meaning that the censorship wasn’t consistent nor geographically constrained. Few details were given about what a curated version of Steam that would abide by local laws

Lewis set out to understand how YouTube in particular has become a thriving hub of far-right content. When another personality popped up on one of these channels, she began charting that person’s path through YouTube as well. What the section below showcases is that radicalization on YouTube is also a fundamentally social problem. Thus, even if YouTube altered or fully removed its content recommendation algorithms, the AIN would still provide a pathway for radicalization. The website similarly s