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Before he launched a biotech startup, prior even to landing a role in a premier academic lab, Anindya Roy arrived in the U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Robin Murphy, professor at Texas A&M University, about the through line between a science fiction novel and the current state of AI and automation. Seventy-one ...

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Some years are better than others for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The last genuine blockbuster year was probably 2015, which gave us N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, Ken Liu’s The ...

Science fiction movies have long explored our future concerns and hopes. In the 21st century, as technology and society have rapidly advanced, the genre has become more relevant than ever, presenting ...

When Mary Shelley publishedFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she wasn’t just writing a gothic horror novel—she ...