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He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left?
The 2009 sci-fi comedy Aliens in the Attic, starring Ashley Tisdale and Austin Butler, has landed at No. 10 on Netflix's Global Top 10 chart.
Interstellar mates, futuristic worlds and cosmic stakes collide in a romance subgenre finding a growing audience among BookTok readers.
The 1970s were a golden age for cinema of the extraterrestrial variety. Ridley Scott's "Alien" turned the Xenomorph loose on a spaceship, while George Lucas' "Star Wars" introduced us to Wookies and Tusken Raiders in a galaxy far, far away. Elsewhere ...
The speed of AI evolution is so staggering that 'absurd future ideas' once depicted in the world of fiction are now being reported as mundane technical specifications in the next morning's news. Such scenes have become a daily occurrence.