sci-fi

“Foe” finds itself somewhere between monotonous and bland; it wants to be sexual and innovative but meanders into tedium.

We’re still trying to understand the extent of the shift. Many argue they’re just the same as us. I don’t like calling it a “zombie outbreak.”

“The Way of Water” plunges its audience into a three-hour runtime many will find it easy to drown in.

“This is Where We Fall” is a bullet train of a graphic novel: quick, effective and gets you where you want to go with just the right amount of bells and whistles.

After watching "Stranger Things," I got to thinking about the other sci-fi shows I’ve watched on Netflix, and here are the ones that come to mind!

Sci-fi legend William Shatner has been quite active lately — releasing a new book, recording a Christmas album and going on tour with the 1982 film “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” to name a few things.

In a widely-ranging discussion of sci-fi texts of the past and present, UC Berkeley lecturer Emily Carpenter and professor Namwali Serpell articulate representations of race and gender, discuss the ways that sci-fi reflects contemporary politics and offer interpretations of popular films.

Author and UC Berkeley alumna Beth Barany uses her science fiction and fantasy stories to question gender roles and empower women.

It makes sense, perhaps, that the first short story Dick ever sold in 1953 was entirely based on the utterly mundane situation of a Berkeley neighbor’s dog barking at the garbage man.

Something in her is dangerous, and if she is capable enough to bring robots into self-awareness, she can take it away.