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Intelligence analyst and educator Dr. Alexandra Luce discusses the challenges of making accurate near-future predictions..

Tom Doherty Associates is excited to bring its second annual TorCon to your screens! This virtual convention brings all the fun of panels right to the fans. From Thursday, June 10th through Sunday, June 13th, Tor Books, Tordotcom Publishing, Tor Teen, Forge Books, and Nightfire Books are presenting a full programming slate featuring some of your favorite authors, some big news announcements, and more ways to stay home while still geeking out! Check out the lineup! You can register for TorCon here..

What do you if your plans to pitch your sci-fi series get disrupted by a global pandemic? If you’re the creators of SENTINELS: POINT OF NO RETURN, you get creative and make a podcast instead. The premise of the story is classic sci-fi reminiscent of another current series, THE EXPANSE. By 2546, Earth and the Solar System’s Colonies are owned by seven all-powerful transglobal corporations. For over three hundred years, EarthCorp’s Sentinel Guard has been the interplanetary defense, search and rescue, and corporate law enforcement branch of SysCorp’s Security.

Dystopian science fictionfeaturing AIs doesn’t always have to be a Skynet situation. In TERMS OF SERVICE, a new indie sci-fi novel, author Craig Stanfill creates a futuristic world in which many of the problems of humans stem from restrictions on AI. Below, author Craig Stanfill shares what inspired his story. Much of the action in Terms of Service takes place within a virtual reality system which is so realistic, it sometimes seems more vivid than the actual physical world. People attend sports games, use it at work, and socialize with their.

Like a lot of sci-fi writers, Jason Michael Primrose grew up loving books and spent childhood years secretly writing. One of those imaginative creations has bloomed into the book series and multimedia fictional world, Lost Children of Andromeda. His first novel in the series, Zosma, came out in 2018, and the next, Time and Salvation, comes out in May 2021. “I grew up reading lots of different stories, but I tended toward fantasy—dragons and such,” says Primrose, citing creations as diverse as A Wrinkle in Time series, Chronicles of Narnia, Marvel comics, Goosebumps, R.L. Stine, Neil.

If taking the enormity of sci-fi worldbuilding and focusing it down into a few short phrases seems as impossible as faster-than-light travel, you might want to check out Across the Vacuum: A Sci-Fi Haiku Collection by author Marcus Vance. If you haven’t followed Vance on Twitter yet, you should. He loves talking science fiction, fantasy, and past-future technology, including weaponry.  Recently, he chatted with Recursor about his poetry and more. RECURSOR: What was the first moment you found yourself drawn to science fiction/fantasy?  VANCE: The first novel I remember reading was The.

Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest presents the Australian Sci-Fi Showcase in association with Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival on Saturday to Sunday, April 3-4, 2021. Seven Australian films encompassing the vast themes and infinite possibilities of speculative cinema will represent the Oz sector as part of the inaugural Australian Sci-fi Showcase. This is an online screening series hosted by the Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest in conjunction with the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival. The key aim is to create an exchange between the festivals to allow Australian and German films to access.

Cerebral sci-fi mind-bender, VOLITION, has been picked up by Showtime for US streaming, beginning March 3, 2021. This marks another milestone in the indie gem’s release. After winning Best Feature at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, VOLITION went on to show at places like FrightFest London and also premiered on VOD in July 2020, earning impressive reviews and an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score. Variety calls the film, “Succinctly propulsive,” and The Hollywood Reporter deems it “An ingeniously constructed puzzler” while the New York Times raves it as a “Clever puzzle….

Now out on VOD, the stellar sci-fi short film COGNITION by director Ravi Ajit Chopra is a must see. At the center of this moving story is Abner (Jeremy Irvine), who was kidnapped from his father (Andrew Scott) and brainwashed as a child to become a soldier for an evil empire. Abner’s inner struggle and the outside world collide in a dramatic moment that underscores the trauma Abner has undergone. The film is an emotional tale, with inventive cinematography and a superb score written by Samuel Karl Bohn and performed beautifully.