science fiction

  • The Three Laws were never enough

    Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were written as science fiction in the 1940s. Today, they look increasingly like an early attempt to grapple with a problem we are only beginning to understand. The first law was simple enough: a robot may not injure a human being, or allow a human being to come to…

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  • The African Speculative Fiction Society has announced its short list for the 2021 speculative fiction awards in the following categories: Fiction – the Ilube Nommo Award Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji (Riverhead Books) Stephen Embleton: Soul Searching (Guardbridge Books) Nikhil Singh: Club Ded (Luna Press Publishing) Short story Tiah Marie Beautement: The Bend of…

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