It’s not often that lovers of ‘serious’ art films and fans of sci-fi movies look forward to the same thing.
Ask people which AI embodiment in science fiction is the most villainous and mankind’s greatest enemy, and chances are they’ll …
And discovered talent — from Martin Scorsese to James Cameron and Jack Nicholson
‘Superhero’ movies needn’t just be big-budget productions, or have big stars, or be based on comic books. Here’s five such movies, for now.
This brilliant seminal SF novel plays a big role in the real events behind the Oscar-nominated film, but unfairly doesn’t get a mention.
Gattaca is set in a future where non-genetically engineered people are deemed ‘in-valid’.
Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence.
Barack Obama took the book along to read on his holiday, and on finishing said, “So that was fun to …
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” …
Prolific is an understatement for Isaac Asimov, ‘second-best science fiction writer in the world’ and typist extraordinaire.
From time-loops and Groundhog Day to the Ramayana; from Flash Gordon to the weird, fantastically imagined world of India in …
Even those with children of their own.
With data rajas, AIs, robots, gods, water wars, nutes, Krishna Cops and divided into a dozen semi-independent states, it’s a familiar-yet-modern India, a hundred years after independence.
Two days ago was Jagadish Chandra Bose’s 158th birthday, and Google duly celebrated it with a doodle — a fitting …
Earth is vastly overpopulated. Food is scarce. So is fuel. Drinking water even more so. Governments have become tools of …
“If I could, I would open, right here in Bangalore, a big bookstore dedicated only to science fiction,” said the …
