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.
With the way things are run, the state controls and monitors everything shown on your television or your computer. So yeah, China can …
Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes.
A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged material called metamaterial – fabric with ultra-complex internal wiring – which, at least in theory, may make it possible for …
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 …
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 of chronal displacement in HTTM may …
“Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever. ‘No,’ he said suddenly. ‘Lend me your hand.’ And turning to the Psychologist, he took that individual’s hand in his own and told him to put out his forefinger. So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage. We all …
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 …
Every Thursday, the Techland Screening Room digs deep in an attempt to appreciate one of the 50 most important sci-fi titles of cinema’s first century. When we’re not analyzing the films, we’re announcing the next title in the series. We welcome your thoughts, insights, grumblings and epiphanies.
Welcome to the inaugural …
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.
Who hasn’t fantasized about it, in one form or another?… to see dinosaurs with your own two eyes, or to tell your younger self to invest in Google, or to suggest to JFK that perhaps a …
