Carrie Fisher—Forever Associated with Star Wars—Dead at 60
For better or worse, part of one America's biggest movie franchise juggernauts
Science Fiction
The Hidden Mind
A best-selling Chinese science fiction series on how to survive aliens and authoritarians comes to America.
Movie Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Felicity Jones in a galaxy not all that far away…
Fall TV Season Gets Time Travel Type Shows Based on Older Shows and Films
There's time traveling in the shows, and the shows are a bit of a time travel too.
Friday A/V Club: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Number 6
The Prisoner celebrates an anniversary.
Jerry Doyle, RIP. Radio Host and Babylon 5 Star Was 60.
"It's not Left vs Right, it's right vs wrong!"
Stranger Things an Homage to Kid-Centric Sci-Fi of the '80s
Netflix series tosses children into suspenseful thriller.
This Netflix Show Hates the Government More Than You Do
Between is pop anti-authoritarianism at its most melodramatic-and fun.
If Politicians Were Controlled by Space Aliens, Would We Notice?
Kang and Kodos go to Washington in new CBS show.
Friday A/V Club: The Terrible Things That Can Happen When a Pop Act Makes a Movie
An artifact of the last great rock panic
Friday A/V Club: G.I. Joe's Guide to Monetary Policy
If you want to learn economics from a TV cartoon, you're better off watching South Park.
Containment Offers No Cure to a Plague of Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Fantasies
New CW show boldly goes where many have gone before.
Dear Conservatives: Don't Peddle Racist Garbage If You Are Not Racist
Their growing flirtation with the sick anti-immigration dystopia, Camp of Saints, is disturbing
Camp of Saints Is a Sick Racist Dystopia and Conservatives Shouldn't Have Anything to Do With It
Restrictionists should try making their case without reviving this vile French book
Klingon Language, Pointy Ears, 'Mood and Theme' of Star Trek All Copyrighted, Paramount Claims
To boldly go where IP law has gone before.
Regulatory Science Fiction
The stories of yesterday provide hints for the lawmakers of tomorrow.
Paul Kantner, R.I.P.
Radical and science-fictional Jefferson Airplane musician made the sixties the sixties--and kept growing.
The Libertarian Fiction Hall of Fame
The Libertarian Futurist Society announces this year's nominees for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
Alien Invasion Series Colony Focuses on Human Intrigue
Collaborate or resist? There are no easy answers.
Did Star Wars Kill the New Hollywood, Pave the Way for Reagan, and Make Us a 'Nation of Eight-Year-Olds'?
Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
How Star Wars Unmasks Baby Boomers As America's Sith Lords
George Lucas' greatest triumph is charting a generation's passage from antiwar activism to running Abu Ghraib and secret kill lists.
The Incoherent Politics of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The movie is fun, but its post-Galactic Empire political structure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
The Man Behind The Martian
Bestselling author Andy Weir on politics, commercial space, and the future of publishing
Star Wars as the Story of Luke Skywalker's Terrorist Radicalization
Arguing about politics is part of what makes Star Wars fandom so much fun.
What Does Star Wars Mean?: A Reason Argument Hotter Than the Twin Suns of Tatooine
The Washington Post's Alyssa Rosenberg, Free Beacon's Sonny Bunch, and Reason's Peter Suderman fight over why we care.
First Private Rocket Goes to Space, Safely Lands on Earth
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin company succeeds with its New Shepard Reusable Rocket
Friday A/V Club: The Story of Hitler's England
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
The Martian author Andy Weir on Mars Colonization, Commercial Space Travel, and Going From Programmer to Best-Selling Author
Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
Science Fiction Fans Are Fighting About Politics. It's Not the End of the Universe
Science fiction's culture wars have been around for as long as science fiction.
How Artificial Stupidity Can Kill Us All
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
Sense8: The Wachowskis Bring Their Hallucinatory Visions to Television
First season of show about strangers with mysterious mental connections debuts on Netflix.
The Politics of Tomorrowland
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Tomorrowland: 'Atlas Shrugged reimagined by Mickey Mouse'
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
