EUtopias and Other Futures: A European Journal of Science Fiction

A Brief History of Life, the Universe and Everything... By Péter MARTON ** Join the  European Science Fiction group  on Facebook for related discussions. ** Sapiens is a very popular and (somewhat less flatteringly) a fashionable book these days. It's really not bad, even if it is at least in part a summary of earlier works and research by others and certainly  not unprecedented in its theme and scope. As I was reading it, back in January, I was already thinking about how easy it would be to tag further readings to it from the field of speculative fiction, works that have already explored some of the core ideas discussed in Harari's book, and how that could be turned into a blogpost. This is that post now. So, a brief reading list. I could think of more items to list here, of course, but five is the kind of number that looks good in a click-baiting headline... My aim is to bring up some new and also some lesser known works, so this is not even an "ulti...

By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** This will be an open-ended post. You're more than welcome to contribute to it in the form of suggestions in comments here or on Facebook (see the link to our group above). The aim is to collect European music videos that use sci-fi and/or fantasy themes. The image of a funny robot or monster flying by typically will not do: the connection to the speculative genre has to be more substantial. It has to be exciting enough to get us to speculate about it! So I expect the clip in question to either present a narrative or at least an interesting situation that features the performers and/or clip characters in an actual sci-fi or fantasy setting for the duration of the video. 1. The Chemical Brothers: Free Yourself (2018) Directors: Dom & Nic (Dominic Hawley and Nic Goffey) Robots with AI used as "AI Labour Solutions" by a company called Roboforce await a...