Blinks: Michael Berry on Dune; How SF drives discoveries; Gary K. Wolfe reviews

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Films

Digital Girl in an Analog World: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss M3GAN

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Plenty of other killer robot and creepy doll movies to make comparisons to—take your pick—and from the trailer you can pretty much predict the arc of the plot. But there’s something about M3GAN. It seems to have taken on a life of its own. M3GAN is constructed from very basic building blocks: Orphaned girl’s (Violet McGraw) aunt (Allison Williams) gives her a robot (Amie Donald/Jenna Davis) as a replacement for

Conventions Features

ICon 2021 Online Report

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Back when work on this year’s ICon started, it really did look that we might be going back to the way things used to be, and we would have an in-person convention. The plan was not to let all the work done over the past year and a half go to waste, but have a convention that would be two in-person days and a third virtual day. This plan sadly

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Cory Doctorow: Techno-optimism

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