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Silo’s Best Chemistry Feels Like Two People Solving a Maintenance Problem One reason I keep coming back to Silo is that the underground world feels less like a futuristic bunker and more like a badly documented building that somehow became a government. Every...
Citizen Sleeper 2 Understands That Survival Is Often an Administrative Problem Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now part of the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, and that feels like a useful excuse to revisit the kind of science fiction games make possible....
The new Gundam project is making the timeline feel unusually ambitious The teaser for *Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO* is only a couple of minutes, but it is doing a lot of setup. The anime is planned for 2027, and its connected game, *GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT*, t...
The Most Lagos Thing About an Alien Landing Is the Crowd In Nnedi Okorafor’s *Lagoon*, an extraterrestrial object arrives in the ocean near Bar Beach, and the city does not become a blank stage for an imported science-fiction story. Lagos remains itself: loud...
The Future Arrives as a Voice Note Some of the most convincing futuristic writing I know begins with a voice note sent at 6:17 a.m. A mother explaining which bus to avoid. A friend recording the sound of rain against a zinc roof. Someone forwarding a warning...
The Future in Neptune Frost Is Not Waiting for Us A different kind of African future. The Cinephile Studio’s discussion of Neptune Frost returns to a question that Afrofuturist work keeps asking in different forms: who gets to imagine the future, and what mat...