Robots: Still Scary After All These Years

If it wasn’t for writers like Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, robot movies as we know them would not exist. Much is made of Hollywood’s fascination with technology, but today’s audience tends to forget that literary giants like Asimov and Bradbury were pioneers of extrapolating our technological advances and analyzing the effects such advances could […]

25 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time…Maybe

What are the 25 best sci-fi books of all time? In a genre that has constantly evolved since before the days of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells (okay, okay… I recognize that the days of Shelley and Verne and Wells are not the same days. Not by a long shot. Let’s just call that the […]

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: Modern Scifi Owes a Debt

I, Robot. Is there a selection from the golden age of science fiction that better epitomizes the era? There’s no doubt that Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot is a science fiction classic. Complete with the three laws of robotics, it casts a tall shadow over almost every work of science fiction, book or movie, and you hear […]

Space Age Prophets: The Astounding Predictions of Sci-Fi’s “Big Three”

In the mid-20th century, three science-fiction authors would become known as the genre’s “Big Three” — Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. These three gentlemen are renowned not only for their literary prowess, but also for their uncanny ability to make predictions about technology in the future. Here is a look at […]

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