science fiction

The bridge between imagination and technological advancement, where the dreamer’s vision predicts change, and foreshadows a futuristic reality. Science fiction has the ability to become “science reality”.

Empath: Into the Shadow, Chapter 4
September 16th 2016 Jeffery woke with a startle. He had dreamed of the hospital again, being trapped in its walls with the recycled air and dirty sheets. He had dreamed of escaping. He got up and sat on the corner of the bed and rubbed his neck and face. It was just a nightmare. I’m never going back to that place. He had spent the better part of the year confined in its hallways and tried not to think about how the doctor said he should have long term care since he had two visits to the ER in the past year. Jeffery had been diagnosed schizophrenic. He was only eighteen but the stress and anxiety of his first semester of college triggered a change in him leading to his eventual withdrawal from classes due to hospitalization.
By Jim Kane8 years ago in Futurism
'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.8 Impossible Planet
I've been saying throughout my episode-by-episode reviews of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, the 10-part anthology of standalone episodes streaming on Amazon Prime, that this anthology has been attracting some top-draw stars. I mean, we're talking Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Maura Tierney, Mireille Enos, and the like. But episode 1.8, "Impossible Planet," brings us Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's daughter, first big appearance in Dr. Zhivago) as a woman in her hundreds wanting to visit Planet Earth before she dies.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Screaming Metal (Part 022)
Shake Hands was a planet on the cool side, occupying an outer position of its sun's circumstellar habitable zone. While cold at times, it wasn't completely intolerable. Even overnight.
By Made in DNA8 years ago in Futurism
Resetting Tim Walker
“What number should finish the following sequence? 23, 14, 19, 6 and 20?” “19.” “State the probability of the visual occurrence.”
By Philippa Robinson8 years ago in Futurism
Hero of the [Code]
An old screen flickered to life, lighting up a grungy room strewn will old tech, computers, wires, and half eaten packs of food. A single occupant sat in the dim light of the screen.
By JP Giguere8 years ago in Futurism
Screaming Metal (Part 021)
"Yes, ma'am," Deshel said. "Suen, give me a local structure report." "Holodar shows no man-made structures in the vicinity. Forests withstanding, the area is clean to seven meters off the floor."
By Made in DNA8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.7 The Father Thing
The 1950s were invaded with science fiction in which entities from outer space arrived here and took over the bodies of human beings. Invasion of the Body Snatchers — made into a movie at least three times (1956 and 1978 by that name, and again in 1996 as just Body Snatchers) and many more times as riffs on the same story with different names — is the best-known iconic template for that tale. It was good to see it back again in "The Father Thing," episode 1.7 of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, standalone stories all streaming on Amazon Prime, which I've been reviewing here one at a time.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.6 Safe & Sound
Safe & Sound — episode 1.6 in Philip K. Dick's standalone 10-episode anthology series on Amazon Prime which I've been reviewing here one episode at a time (with minimal spoilers and no or scant comparison to the original Philip K. Dick stories) — returns to the familiar but always exquisite Dick territory of is it real or illusion, in this case the real being an ear gel through which Foster Lee hears the voice of a digital assistant, the illusion being the possibility that the voice is literally in her head, given some credence since her father was a psycho who heard voices.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.5 The Hood Maker
Telepathy is another favorite but not-as-well-known-as-some-other themes of Philip K. Dick - appearing in the aforementioned (i..e, mentioned in my review of episode 1.3 of Electric Dreams) "Beyond Lies the Wub" in 1952. Its combination with police procedural in Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams episode 1.5, The Hood Maker, makes for a classic Dick amalgam.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Skullmates
Even though both of my Millennial parents hated him, the late Bill Gates was a role model for me. Like him, I never finished college. It took me a little bit longer to become a billionaire, though. I was 32 when my accounting A.I. notified me that my net worth has passed one billion euros.
By Robert Enders8 years ago in Futurism
Civil War 2
No one expected a second civil war in these United States...in these former United States, much less the globe. It came as a shock to most, although it really shouldn't have. The government had been failing for years, whether it was a Libby or a right-leaner on the presidential throne the crap was always the same. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
By Clint Botha8 years ago in Futurism
'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream'
Harlan Ellison’s "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" represents an artificial intelligence known as “AM” to be a vengeful God-like figure in the eyes of the main character, Ted. There are numerous references to Judeo-Christian beliefs of God and Hell that could lead one to argue that AM is playing the roles of both God and Satan in this post-apocalyptic world. Ted, in a similar way, shows persistent qualities of humanity that are reflected in AM, as well.
By Josh Whitehead8 years ago in Futurism