Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series | Tor.com
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It? - The Atlantic The pilot did it, apparently m
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SF For Nothing, Stories For Free - Charlie’s Diary A list of free SF.
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Strange Horizons - Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift By Erin Horáková A lengthy essay arguing that the popular image of Shatner’s Kirk isn’t what the original episodes of Star Trek portray (but that the reboot has picked up the stereotype and run with it).
(tags: star-trek kirk james-t-kirk science-fiction television) BENDOCKERY.COM: The Anatomy of ( Read more... )

The Science Behind “The Expanse” - 1/25/17 - YouTube A panel with Caltech scientists and people from the show.
(tags: tv the-expanse science science-fiction sci-fi physics astronomy) Abigail Nussbaum - Person of Interest - The Good Bits Version If you want just the SF bits of Person of Interest (which are great, see Peter Watts’s review) without ( Read more... )

The Last Question - Album on Imgur Asimov’s classic short story, illustrated.
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The best SF and fantasy books of 2016 | Books | The Guardian
(tags: scifi books science-fiction fantasy) Code review in remote teams - Hypothesis
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“The Culture represents the place we might hope to get to” | MetaFilter Mefi’s discussion of the (previously linked) recently published interview with Iain M Banks (RIP). It’s good.
(tags: metafilter iain-m-banks culture sci-fi sf science-fiction discussion) GCHQ’s ‘jihad on tech firms’ can only fail | Technology | The Guardian Blaming Facebook for ( Read more... )

Read The Leprechauns of Software Engineering | Leanpub Looks interesting, a few sample chapters on the “10 x” programmer and waterfall.
(tags: management software waterfall ebook) William Gibson: ‘We always think of ourselves as the cream of creation’ | Books | The Observer Gibson has a new book out.
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Robot makes people feel like a ghost is nearby | Science/AAAS | News You can induce sensed presences by having a robot poke you in the back.
(tags: emotions ghosts robots psychology) Philosophical Disquisitions: Is there a defensible atheistic account of moral values? Maybe, or at least, it’s as good as a popular theistic account.
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The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Ted Chiang’s short about memory, time and loss. It’s also an alien first contact story.
(tags: heptapod story science-fiction time ted-chiang sci-fi language first-contact memory) Cambridge: Poles apart Why Warsaw beats Cambridge Blog Mike Levy “A weekend in Warsaw made me think about Cambridge at night. In ( Read more... )