A Vivid Near-Future Dystopia Comes to Life in This Moving Sci-FI Tale

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “A Pedra” by Endria Isa Richardson. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast. James Gunn on Feeling Pressure to Add Adam Warlock to Guardians of the Galaxy … Read more

40 Years Ago, Apple Got Our Current Tech Dystopia Dead Wrong

We are all the sledgehammer, Apple does like to tell its fans. We are all disruptors hurtling toward one great screen, breaking the iron-fisted hold that other tech firms want to impose on us. The hellscape dystopia world of Apple’s famed “1984” commercial modeled after George Orwell’s seminal dystopia 1984 never really came to pass. … Read more

Hulu’s The Different Black Woman Trailer: Workplace Dystopia Horrors

Picture: Hulu When editorial assistant Nella (Sinclair Daniel) meets her new co-worker Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), she’s thrilled that her in any other case jarringly all-white firm has employed one other Black individual. However because the trailer for brand spanking new Hulu collection The Different Black Woman reveals, generally it’s higher to watch out what you … Read more