science fiction
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See The Best Black TV of 2022…So Far
The best Black TV series and characters from the first half of 2022.
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Paramount+ Renews Its Entire Star Trek Franchise, Sets Picard Premiere Date
Discovery, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds have been given new seasons, while the 2nd season of Picard is set for a March 3 premiere.
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Public Service Announcement: Tenet Is Not Going to Make Any More Sense Upon a Second Watch
Warning: Light spoilers for Tenet will follow. Back in September, my roommate and I drove a half-hour to the closest drive-in to watch Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, Tenet. My initial feelings on the film could be boiled down to “Fuck yeah! But what, what actually happened?” Yesterday, I copped the 4K Blu-Ray, eager to experience it…
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It Took Nearly 50 Years, but This Week, Octavia Butler Made the New York Times Best Sellers' List
“I write bestselling novels,” Octavia Butler wrote on the inside cover of a notebook in 1988. 32 years later, that affirmation has come to pass. As reported by LitHub, on Wednesday, Butler’s agent, Merrilee Heifetz, tweeted that the author’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, had made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers’…
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Watch: Black Women Dive Headfirst Into the Future With Virtual Reality Project
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism is an art installation and virtual reality experience recently featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. The project, which seeks to put women of color in the virtual reality space, was created by Hyphen-Labs, a collective of women from diverse backgrounds. “We worked with character modelers, animators and developers to create an empowering experience…
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Brooke Obie Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
After a not-really-all-that-brief-at-all hiatus, The Writing Ass Chick We Love series returns with the homie Brooke Obie. We’ve known each other since we worked together at EBONY.com, and I’ve read and admired your work in the past. But, in preparing for this feature, I visited your personal site (brookeobie.com) for the first time, and read your…