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FUNNY WOMEN: The Future Is Female and Customizable

  • Hanna Hurr
  • March 4, 2022
Announcing the She-bot 3000, a female companion who’s the perfect combination of girlfriend, mother, and therapist. For a low daily rate (and with no minimum commitment or background check required), the She-bot can be your bot, and yours only.
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Spotlight: “Robots Buying Coffee”

  • Sara Harvey
  • May 19, 2020
It's 2025 and the robots have become sentient.
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The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019

  • Wesley Sexton
  • September 17, 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
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The Clockwork Job Thief

  • Hannah Foster
  • March 19, 2019
Ornamental yet functional, mobile yet fragile—do these aesthetic humanoids belong more to the realm of novelty or art?
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Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe

  • Samantha Edmonds
  • March 5, 2019
Don’t try to make human what you are not willing to regard as human.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 20, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • December 27, 2016
Your new chatbot therapist recommends volunteering. Womp womp: those productivity hacks are making you less productive. A quick-and-dirty primer to the “Anthropocene.”
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • December 6, 2016
Why Finnish women matter to the history of science fiction. Holiday science books: let visions of squid and sarcophagi dance in their heads. Astronauts survive thanks to a black female mathematician.…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • November 29, 2016
Don’t dis slang—it’s older than you are. Regarding the pain of fish (and humanities-loving robots). Fake scientists are real. Sexism messes up men’s mental health, too. Aimee Bender and the Ladies…
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Like Tears in Rain

  • Adam Keller
  • September 30, 2016
In a universe slowly sinking into entropy, writing can take the disordered pieces of our experience and fit their edges together into something organized. If the work of a writer is to tease…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • September 13, 2016
Forget yoga—hallucinogenic ayahuasca is the new health cure du jour. H.G. Wells’s BFF was editor of Nature. Also from Nature: Wave goodbye to the 10,000-hours rule. Neurofiction, or stories that…
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Carving the Uncanny Valley

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 16, 2016
Any Luddite with half a brain has already begun stockpiling nonperishables for the inevitable moment the robots rise up against us. Over at the Ploughshares blog, Joelle Renstrom recounts how…
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