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Ghost corporation. By Kilian Eng
The Art of Daniele Valeriani
20 Years of Mind-Bending Art From Omni
A gorgeously retro-spooky series of stereoscopic GIFs
FRANK R. PAUL ILLUSTRATIONS
X-men Do Vanity Fair
Audio:
Flying Cars And Tricorders: How Sci-Fi Invented The Present (mp3)
"From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to George Orwell’s 1984 to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-winning Her, artists have imagined what the future will look like. In this week’s episode, Kurt Andersen explores how science fiction has shaped the world we’re living in right now. The inventor of the cell phone gives credit to Star Trek’s communicator; International Space Station superstar Chris Hadfield explains the ups and downs of space; and science writer Carl Zimmer says the giant sandworms of Dune got him interested in life on Earth." Read on
Why We Keep Biting Into The Dracula Story (mp3)
wbur.org: "Was Vlad the Impaler the real life Dracula? We’ll look at the history and the myth of literature’s great vampire." Read on
Video:
George Lucas’ Award-Winning Student Film Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB
"Set in a dystopic totalitarian future, the movie is about one guy in a white jumpsuit who struggles to escape from the clutches of the society’s high tech surveillance apparatus."
James S.A.Corey: Authors at Google
In conversation with James S.A. Corey at Google. James S.A. Corey is the pen name of fantasy author Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
Before the Dawn of the Apes
"The producers of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes have teamed up wth Motherboard (VICE’s short films channel) to create Before the Dawn, a series of short films meant to bridge the gap between Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the forthcoming sequel."
Bowl of Heaven & Shipstar
"In Bowl of Heaven & Shipstar, collaborations by science fiction masters Larry Niven and Gregory Benford, the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowlshaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it’s on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship."
