dystopia
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A New Silo Clip Offers a Cryptic Tease of the Show’s Secrets to Come
Adaptations of popular books are all the rage these days, and Apple TV+’s newest entry into that space is the upcoming series Silo. It still feels like the show is flying under the radar, but Apple TV’s recently begun to show more of the dystopian show ahead of its release in May, and that includes…
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An Immigration Advisory for Fictional Dystopias
If you are in the global north and want to migrate to a fictional dystopia, then you have lost your grip on reality but also, more worryingly, may have expat colonial/oligarch aspirations: your only possible reason for wanting to move could be to reinforce that dystopia’s ruling elite. This advisory is not for you.
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Earth’s Future Is Lonely for the Robots Left Behind in Sci-Fi Short The Desert
In a future where humanity has abandoned its home planet — or perhaps gone entirely extinct, as bits of atomic-bomb imagery suggest — robots rule, but it’s a lonely and strange existence. They’re drawn to things that remind them of the past, like libraries and TV sets, but also feel more primal urges, like the…
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Cyberpunk 2077’s Retrofuturistic World Is Worth Exploring Beneath the Flaws
When Cyberpunk 2077 came out last December, all eyes were on what I like to call “the little game that couldn’t.” CD Projekt Red’s long-anticipated dive into the cyberpunk genre was laden with bugs, glitches, and reports of horrible work conditions for the development team. Six months later, enough patches have come out to make…