As ‘Disclosure Day’ Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth
Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was “speculative,” writes the Associated Press, but “Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal.”

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Zukunft des Franchise: George Miller plant weiteren Mad-Max-Film
Nach Furiosa ist Mad Max offenbar noch nicht am Ende. George Miller verfolgt bereits neue Pläne. ( Mad Max, Science-Fiction)

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Paul Mescal’s Oscar-Winning $108.7M Movie Is Coming to Netflix Soon
Netflix will soon add a 2025 historical epic starring Paul Mescal to its streaming catalog. The film blends fiction and history, exploring the death of William Shakespeare’s son. It received universal acclaim and was in the running for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. Hamnet arrives on Netflix in July Hamnet begins streaming on Netflix […]

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Russell T. Davies enthüllt: Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special war nie geplant
Doctor-Who-Fans warteten auf ein Weihnachtsspecial. Laut Russell T Davies hat es dafür jedoch nie konkrete Pläne gegeben. ( Science-Fiction, Disney)

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Ende einer Ära: BBC streicht Doctor-Who-Weihnachtsspecial
Doctor Who bekommt kein Weihnachtsspecial. Die BBC bereitet stattdessen einen umfassenden Neustart der Serie vor. ( Science-Fiction, Disney)

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Jimmy Kimmel Uses Obsession’s Willow to Make 1 Wish About Donald Trump
Jimmy Kimmel used “One Wish Willow” from Obsession to make a wish about Donald Trump. Actress Inde Navarrette appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the newly released thriller. On air, she and Kimmel broke the film’s fictional cursed wishing artifact together. What did Jimmy Kimmel wish about Donald Trump? Jimmy Kimmel used the willow […]

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Wie in den 80ern: Science-Fiction-Film erscheint zuerst auf VHS
Ein neuer Science-Fiction-Film setzt auf VHS statt Streaming und will damit ein Zeichen gegen die digitale Filmwelt setzen. ( Science-Fiction, Film)

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New Hercule Poirot Cast for Agatha Christie TV Show Following Kenneth Branagh Movies
Agatha Christie‘s Hercule Poirot has found a new face after Kenneth Branagh‘s most recent portrayals. The actor playing Poirot in the BBC’s upcoming TV show based on the popular fictional detective has finally been revealed. Who has been cast as Hercule Poirot in the new Agatha Christie TV show? It’s been confirmed that Edward Bluemel, […]

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Henry Cavill’s First Netflix Movie After The Witcher Exit Arrives Soon
Netflix will add a highly anticipated sequel in a crime drama franchise featuring Henry Cavill next month. Starring alongside Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, Cavill portrays an iconic Victorian-era fictional detective. The film marks his return to Netflix after he stepped away from his role in The Witcher series. Enola Holmes 3 releases on […]

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These True-Story Movies Prove Real Life Can Be Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger than fiction.

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Jess McLeod’s She’s Nonbinary Teaser Trailer Previews Short From Bob Odenkirk & Jane Schoenbrun | Exclusive
ComingSoon is excited to debut the teaser trailer for She’s Nonbinary, which gives a look at Jess McLeod’s short film. McLeod wrote, directed, and starred in She’s Nonbinary. It debuts today as part of Tribeca’s Love Fictionally Shorts Program and is being adapted into a full-length movie. Follow-up showings at Tribeca will take place on […]

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Samantha Callback in Sex and the City Star’s New Ad Has Fans Buzzing
Sex and the City star Jason Lewis brought back his famous character from the franchise in a new video, where he referenced the character’s fictional relationship with Kim Cattrall‘s Samantha Jones. Created as an advertisement for The Owls Brew, the video sparked discussion among Sex and the City fans because of its reference to Samantha. […]

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Anthropic Says ‘Evil’ Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude’s Blackmail Attempts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avo … ⌘ Read more

Fan Fiction Website AO3 Exits Beta After 17 Years
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its “beta” label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it’s no longer technically in beta.

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Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help)
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil – with a bit of help from human poop. The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show potatoes can indeed grow in the equ … ⌘ Read more

Hyperion Author Dan Simmons Dies From Stroke At 77
Author Dan Simmons, best known for the epic sci-fi novel Hyperion and its sequels, has died at 77 following a stroke. Ars Technica’s Eric Berger remembers Simmons, writing: Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s, produced a broad portfolio of writing that spanned several genres, including horror fiction, historical fiction, and sc … ⌘ Read more

Which Piece of Speculative Fiction Had the Greatest Single-Day Stock Market Impact?
Speaking of the Citrini’s blog post, which imagines a near-future AI-driven economic collapse, and which ended up help triggering the S&P 500’s worst single-day drop in nearly two weeks on Monday, FT Alphaville decided to track how US stock markets have moved on the release days of notable dystopian speculative fic … ⌘ Read more

The AI Case Against Indian IT Ignores What Indian IT Actually Does
A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading session on February 24 and sent the Nifty IT index down as much as 5.3% – its worst single-day fall since August 2023 – on the argument that AI coding agents have collapsed the cost advantage of Indian … ⌘ Read more

‘Babylon 5’ Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube
Cord Cutters News reports:

In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi… Viewers noticed notifications on Tubi indicating that all five seasons w … ⌘ Read more

Romance Publishing Has an AI Problem and Most Readers Don’t Know It Yet
The romance genre – long the publishing industry’s earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases – has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, … ⌘ Read more

Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal
“A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction,” writes the Los Angeles Times.

“All you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience.”

The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009 and is nearly ready to bring it to market… [Company founder Marcus] Leng engineered an ultralig … ⌘ Read more

Le 10ème Homme – Dossier du mois : la génomique
Imaginez un instant que vous déteniez le manuel d’instruction de votre propre vie. Un code secret, logé au cœur de chacune de vos cellules, qui dicte non seulement votre passé, mais aussi votre futur de santé et de résilience. Ce code, c’est votre génome. Longtemps restée le domaine réservé de la science-fiction, la génomique est […] ⌘ Read more

North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers’ Last Names
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law’s language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, “that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill.”

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Fake hero, wrong suspect: Misinformation floods social media after Bondi shooting
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Washington Post’s AI-Generated Podcasts Rife With Errors, Fictional Quotes
The Washington Post’s top standards editor Thursday decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists. From a report: Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobil … ⌘ Read more

Hollywood Director Found Guilty of Blowing $11 Million Netflix Budget on Crypto and Ferraris
Carl Rinsch, the director behind the 2013 Keanu Reeves film “47 Ronin,” has been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was meant to fund a science fiction series called “Conquest,” which the streaming company ultimately cancelled in 2021 after Rinsch failed to meet any pro … ⌘ Read more

The best new science fiction books of December 2025
From a new collection of shorter fiction by Brandon Sanderson to Simon Stålenhag’s new work, via a Stranger Things novel, December’s new sci-fi features some compelling and intriguing offerings ⌘ Read more

Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her ⌘ Read more

Fingerprints, fibres and DNA: Do you know forensic facts from fiction?
Forensics has provided the biggest breakthrough in criminal justice in the last century. It’s also become the perfect subject matter for TV crime shows. But do you know forensic facts from fiction? Take our quiz to find out. ⌘ Read more

Mind-Altering ‘Brain Weapons’ No Longer Only Science Fiction, Say Researchers
Researchers warn that rapid advances in neuroscience, pharmacology, and AI are bringing “brain weapons” out of science fiction and into real-world plausibility. They argue current arms treaties don’t adequately cover these emerging tools and call for a new, proactive framework to prevent the weaponization of the human mi … ⌘ Read more

10 Fictional Kings Who Go from Good to Bad
It’s always sad when heroes fall from the light. They often start with the best intentions, but in trying to act on them, they clash with the world at large. That clash mires their journey in hardship. The heroes grow to resent their circumstances, turning to extreme measures to right those wrongs. This fate can […]

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Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it? The answer is in how our brains perceive risk and trust
From ChatGPT crafting emails, to AI systems recommending TV shows and even helping diagnose disease, the presence of machine intelligence in everyday life is no longer science fiction. ⌘ Read more

The best new science fiction books of November 2025
From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to watch out for in November’s science fiction ⌘ Read more

Undergrad students deploy applications to geosynchronous satellite 22,236 miles above Earth
For many college students, satellites are faint dots crossing the sky on clear nights. These objects are background details from science fiction to reality, like GPS, satellite radio, and WiFi. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yep for sure. The part about concentrating too much power and reliance on the wealthy elite also resonated with me. Seems a good way to potentially end up in one of those dystopian futures you usually see in fictions where massive corporations have too much power and control over people.

** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately I’ve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries’, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.

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10 Evil Religions in Fiction
Religion is a source of comfort and conscience. As people look to their respective gods for guidance, their conclusions inform their values, drive their actions, and give meaning to events. However, that pattern isn’t always a good thing, as some religious practices aren’t so righteous. An ignoble doctrine could be a cheap excuse to set […]

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@xuu@txt.sour.is a Star Wars series, eh? Never been a fan. I am Trekkie instead; it comes across as more science fiction, less fantasy. Still, I would see it if only we had Disney+. 😩

10 Real Ways Scientists Think Humans Could Evolve Next
Human evolution didn’t stop when we stood upright or invented cities. In fact, it’s still happening—just under new pressures. As technology, climate, medicine, and global lifestyles reshape how we live and reproduce, scientists ask: what’s next? These aren’t science fiction fantasies but real hypotheses based on current evolutionary pressures and long-term trends. Here are 10 […]

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10 Fictional Species Designed for Battle
War is generally not something to aspire to. It’s a desperate measure to resolve one’s differences when all other options fail. Fighting forgoes people’s evolutionary intelligence and reduces them to their baser instincts. Such barbarism leaves both sides licking their wounds, coping with the pain and death that their actions have wrought. Granted, combat is […]

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ve only seen the first two episodes so far. S7E01 was just barely watchable for me, it’s way too realistic. This is supposed to be fiction, not a documentary! 😂

10 Pop Culture Figures Who Actually Existed
From Darth Vader to Mary Poppins, pop culture icons can excite, enrage, or inspire us. And though most characters tend to be wholly fictional in nature, some famous ones are actually based on real-life people. Here’s our list of 10 pop culture figures who existed IRL. Related: Top 10 Underrated Minor Characters from Pop Culture […]

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10 Fictional Bands with Real Hit Songs
Several movies and television shows feature bands we fall in love with, but some fictional bands find real success. Once these bands started gaining traction, they released albums, created music videos, and sometimes even embarked on a tour. Their hits and soundtracks rank high on music charts, and some even reached the top spots. Some […]

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10 Fictional Portrayals of Area 51
America is full of urban legends, and one of the most enduring is Area 51. Numerous theories surround this mysterious military base. Because of the Roswell incident in 1947, most of these myths involve aliens. However, many also think the place holds secret weapons and ancient artifacts. Each guess is more outlandish than the last. […]

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10 Real-Life Crimes Inspired by Fiction
Fictional stories are meant to entertain, provoke thought, or even inspire—but sometimes, they inspire people in the worst way possible. Throughout history, there have been disturbing cases where individuals committed real-life crimes after being influenced by movies, books, TV shows, or even video games. Whether driven by delusions, obsession, or a desire to mimic their […]

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10 Crazy Ideas for Colonizing Outer Space
Are we humans destined for outer space? It would seem so. Because eventually, what’s a civilization to do other than expand to other worlds beyond its own comfortable cosmic nursery? Whether based on science fiction or science-science, as civilization advances, it seems that the natural inkling is to explore and expand, to settle its solar […]

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10 Mystifying Myths About Rock Stars… That Are Actually True
Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction. That’s especially true in the world of rock music. For decades, rock stars have lived wild and insane lives in the public eye. They pretty much do as they please, with sycophants and adoring fans all around them—and none of them ever say no to the star. That […]

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10 Fictional Extinction Events
It’s always unfortunate when a species goes extinct. This tragedy usually happens over a prolonged period, but certain events wipe out a population simultaneously. Earth has seen several such events, which kill most life forms across the biological spectrum. These mass extinctions are as frightening as they are fascinating. For that reason, some storytellers fashion […]

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10 Incredibly Dangerous Jobs That No Longer Exist
The dangerous jobs of the past often feel like works of fiction. Improved technology, better regulations, and widespread information have removed many of the greatest dangers from the average profession. Once upon a time, though, people would regularly risk dying just to make a living. And while some of those dangerous jobs were awful necessities […]

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