In China… well, in China, many weird things happen. The Chinese government, in another strange episode, has decided to ban time travel. Well, at least when it comes to television shows and movies.
Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes.
Wondering what to expect from Marvel Comics over the next few years? You should probably buy a copy of Avengers #5 this Wednesday, in that case, and get with the sleuthing. As part of the series’ current time-travel storyline, the Avengers have met a future version of Tony Stark, who’s helpfully mapped out the major events of the Marvel Universe, including plenty of things that haven’t actually happened yet.
When it hit theaters months ago, Hot Tub Time Machine made audiences believe that a Jacuzzi filled with a contraband Russian energy drink could send people back in time. Our Steve Snyder was “meh” on the flick but it’s out on DVD today, if you want to see if you disagree with him. The mechanics [...]
H.G.Wells was responsible for our first iconic “time machine” – he even coined the phrase – basically a high-tech chair rigged with a dial and a level. Though time travel had been talked about before, Wells’ book certainly romanticized the idea. Since, we’ve seen it again and again: Time jumpers altering their pasts, spinning off [...]
Jason Shiga’s artwork is as precisely functional as a mathematical proof: it communicates what’s happening in his comics clearly, it’s funny, and that’s about all that can be said for it. But he’s an excellent, very funny, enormously original, and wildly peculiar cartoonist–American comics’ equivalent of bands like the Raincoats and Beat Happening who were [...]
Welcome to the inaugural Techland Screening Room post. To bring you up to speed: I’ve marked out the 50 most important sci-fi movies of all time, and every other week, we’ll be taking a close look at what makes these works so great.
Time travel is a perennial favorite trope of science fiction and has been ever since I went back to the 1890s and mentioned the idea to H.G. Wells.
