Margaret Atwood and readers see a Trump in The Handmaid’s Tale, and sales go through the roof
There’s always some excitement surrounding the prolific and celebrated author Margaret Atwood. It’s only right. But this has been especially true recently. One reason is, there’s that television adaptation of The… Read more »
Science fiction authors are helping shape our bleak, dystopian virtual reality future
Over the last few years, billions of dollars have been invested into virtual reality technology, and 2016 will finally be the year when VR goes mainstream. So now more than… Read more »
Amazon releases elaborate commercial for increasingly not nonexistent delivery system
Two years after announcing its drone delivery service, Prime Air, Amazon released a new commercial for the service. The ad stars boorish, producer-punching Englishman Jeremy Clarkson, who, throughout its running time,… Read more »
The Apocalypse is here, and it’s dystopian
In her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster”, Susan Sontag discussed the meaning and power of the catastrophic imagery of science-fiction. The thesis of her argument has now become a… Read more »