Like That Movie ‘Her’: New App Let’s You Create Your Own Girlfriend or Boyfriend

Want a girlfriend or boyfriend, but don’t want to put in the time or effort or actually have a living person in your life? We have an app for that! It is called Invisible Girlfriend and Invisible Boyfriend and it does exactly what the name seems to imply. It creates a virtual partner for you to […]

Second Trailer For Chappie Hints at Movie’s Inevitable Greatness

Chappie looks like it is setting up to be one of the best movies of 2015. With Neill Blomkamp directing, doing his sci-fi thing, and with the band Die Antwoord on board and Sigourney Weaver playing what looks to be the antagonist of this whole ordeal, there is nothing about it that DOESN’T look awesome. […]



Happy Towel Day!

Towel Day is celebrated on the 25th of May every year to honor the memory and works of Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The most common way to celebrate is to carry your towel with you, which some fans do everyday. The official site has other suggestions, and a […]

Stephen Hawking on Aliens, Real Possibility of Space and Time Travel

Stephen Hawking has partnered with the Discovery Channel to present a new documentary series called “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking” covering some pretty wonderfully geeky subjects including alien visitors and time travel. But don’t get all excited. Mr. Hawking, as ever, is measured in his approach—though his comments on time travel will likely cause […]

London 2014 [Video]

London is lobbying to bring the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) to their town in 2014. As part of the plan, this video shows the city invaded by aliens, terrorized by monsters, and generally falling victim to any and all science fiction villains. How many of these films do you recognize? [via Nag on the […]

Arthur C. Clarke: The day the future died

By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] “The golden age of science fiction” is a term used to describe a particularly fertile period in science fiction, when old conventions of “the space western” were challenged with new ideas, new themes, and new energy. There are many names associated with that period—Heinlein Bradbury and Asimov, among others—but […]