The first teaser trailer for Alex Garland's latest film Annihilation, due for release next February and based on the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, ...
Earth: a Prison Planet. A planetary panopticon where the convicts happily write their own police files and track their own movements, sharing them with the Stac...
SPOILER WARNING: This post completely spoils the plot of the movie ALLEGIANT, the latest installment in The Divergent Series.
Much like the first post that i...
The first thing you need to know about Gordon White's Star.Ships: A PreHistory of the Spirits is that you don't have to identify as a Practitioner to find this ...
(A special ufologically-flavoured edition of the Plutocratic Exit Strategy.)
How the Plutocrats could realistically fake an alien invasion invasion to enable...
A special ufologically-flavoured edition of the Plutocratic Exit Strategy.
How the Plutocrats could realistically fake an alien invasion invasion to enab...
There's a line from the new space opera, The Expanse, that's quickly becoming a grim shorthand for the futurepresent: Welcome to the Churn. Any doubts that we'r...
What's the end game of late-stage capitalism? What provisions are The Powers That Be making for the Coming Collapse; for Climate Chaos and other Catas...
What's the end game of late-stage capitalism? What provisions are The Powers That Be making for the Coming Collapse; for Climate Chaos and other Catastrophes? T...
What's the end game of late-stage capitalism? What provisions are The Powers That Be making for the Coming Collapse; for Climate Chaos and other Catas...
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