At the heart of Space Sweepers is a blunt instrument named Dorothy – a hunted, vulnerable, super-cute innocent discovered aboard a derelict spacecraft. Watching her…
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Nemesis is a bad film, yet any teenaged boy of the 1990s would surely have savoured its many strange flavours. Director Albert Pyun makes excellent…
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Many of our earliest stories were shaped by the weather, as the struggle for survival was decided in significant part by the success or failure…
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What exactly is it that we find so unnerving about the proliferation of autonomous weapon systems? Reporting on the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial…
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Perhaps more than any other apocalyptic scenario, the asteroid strike holds the potential to expose humanity’s hard-won evolutionary supremacy as little more than a brief…
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There’s nothing quite like a robot to help spin a good story. Automatons offer scifi scribblers an opportunity to create our own Frankenstein tales: of…
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Yes, there is a lot of silly fun on display in the 1996 John Carpenter Snake-fest, Al Leong is still merrily energising the background, and…
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For decades the idea of the flying car has helped shape our vision of the future, every bit as much as the robot and the…
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Super soldiers are not the easiest subject matter for the science fiction writer in search of heroes. Too many soldiers with too much technology inevitably…
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