Click:deep groove ball bearing As a child, Ann Leckie dreamed of growing up to be an archaeologist. Instead, she became a best-selling science fiction author—though she didn’t write her hit debut novel, Ancillary Justice, until she was well into her […]
Adam West may not have been the first Batman—the Caped Crusader appeared in a few 1940s serials long before West donned the cowl—and the brood-dudes who followed definitely overshadowed him. But to my mind, no actor ever made the Dark […]
Ursula Le Guin imagined the future for a living, but her most prescient statement may have come in a speech. "I think hard times are coming," the writer said at the National Book Awards in November 2014, "when we will […]
The Fourth of July is a holiday consecrated in meat smoke. On this day, lovers, neighbors, children, and friends gather around a BBQ, cold beers sweating in hand, to stare into piles of pork belly, strip steak, burger patties, and […]
Han Solo was never one for backstory. That’s why the pilot enjoys perhaps the most fuss-free introduction of the entire Star Wars saga. “Han Solo,” a cool-in-every-way Harrison Ford says in 1977’s Star Wars. “I’m captain of the Millennium Falcon.” […]
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a virtuoso maker of monsters—from the Pale Man of Pan’s Labyrinth to Pacific Rim’s Kaiju, they’re wondrous yet terrifying. But the star of his new film, The Shape of Water, is no mere beast, del […]
Facebook may have decided it doesn’t want to be a media company, but it might just want to be a gaming platform. The company announced today that it will be the exclusive destination for multiple leagues from esports federation ESL. […]
Last week, while the Trump administration unveiled plans to roll back car pollution rules and told the American Civil Liberties Union to find the deported parents it separated from their children, the tallest point in Sweden melted due to climate […]
On Sunday night, around the same time Westworld hit HBO and Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals aired on ESPN, people watched the season finale of Killing Eve. A lot of people. "A lot" is relative here—the stats […]
Joakim Karlén handed me the headset, such as it was. It was a reference design only; the hard plastic box lacked a headstrap, and had a utilitarian form factor only a dystopian sci-fi fan would love. However, it was also […]