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Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.

"Altered Carbon" (Season 1) TV Series - 2018
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The sci-fi films and TV that explore AI in eerily prescient ways

Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?

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The best new science fiction books of November 2024

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F6M33H RELEASE DATE: Dec 18, 2007. ORIGINAL MOVIE TITLE: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. STUDIO: World Artists. PLOT: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019. Earth has become a polluted and miserable dystopia, and many people have fled to live 'Off World' on other planets. This dreary vision of the future features replicants: lifelike robots built as slaves for human use. When a replicant escapes his owner, a

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Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

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Alan Moore

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The best new science fiction books of October 2024

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Grab from the 2073 poster artwork

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Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Third Realm

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Terminator Zero. Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator in Terminator Zero Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2024

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Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

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Netflix handout still: Supacell. SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends new superhero drama Supacell

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Tade Thompson: ‘It’s like the internet, but for aliens’

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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