This week’s Guest Star is long time friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin. Jared is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. His previous anthologies have been finalists for (and usually lost) the Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Awards, and British Fantasy Awards. He’s […]
Everything is real and everything is possible in Latitude Zero. It is both a secret utopia beneath the sea where scientists and artists work in peace, waiting for the day when humankind will be ready to embrace Latitude Zero’s wonders, and a Japanese/American science fiction spectacle directed by […]
It is time once again for the end of year lists. When people share the best in film, television, games, comics, and basically all things. I am still terrible at this. So I offer instead an unranked, alphabetical list of some of the things I liked and a […]
“The first two uses of any technology are sex and war.” Unknown I’m not sure where to properly attribute that quote, but when it’s spoken in the ethereal narration of rock legend and Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in Amanda Kramer’s new documentary, So Unreal, it has a certain […]
This is not a spoiler-free essay. There is a lot of discussion of plot elements. If you like to go into a film blind, you will want to wait to read this piece. ~~~ These are the stories of the robots: They resent us for creating them. They […]
Quick question for y’all: is “my brain has been hijacked by this fictional story and I no longer know how to live in the real world” a valid reason to call in sick to work? I’ve always gotten immersed in stories in a way that blurred the lines […]
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