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Heart-shaped pages of a book

‘Yours for the Taking’ is a subpar speculation on feminism and the planet

Cate Burtner
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Jan. 16, 2024
The Grind
Blue flowers growing in grass.

‘The Literature of the Absurd’: Sci-Fi’s Beckett

Doran Goldman
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May 26, 2023
Reads
"Dispossessed" in the foreground with a pink and purple full moon in the background.

Dystopias, space travel and why you should vote

Leyla Yilmaz
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Nov. 3, 2022
Arts & Life
98 different foods cut into identical cubes and arranged in perfect rows

The strange and sterile food art of the future

Emily Zhang
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June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
Courtesy of Francois Duhamel/Twentieth Century Fox

‘Ad Astra’ is a stellar adventure

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 22, 2019
Arts & Life
"The Vela" is a serial speculative fiction story, but it addresses the current refugee crisis and climate change (courtesy of Serial Box).

Unveiling ‘The Vela’: An interview with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang and Yoon Ha Lee (Part 1)

Shana E. Hadi
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March 6, 2019
Arts & Life
This Thanksgiving, take time to check out these meaningful books (DELAWARE LIBRARIES/Flickr).

Reads of gratefulness

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Sofia Schlozman, Carly Taylor, Sarah Kim, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens and Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 15, 2018
Fifty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is as odd and as awesome as ever (courtesy of Dmitri Kessel/Getty Images).

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is a bizarre, epic journey

Noah Howard
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Oct. 22, 2018
Arts & Life
Cinequest co-founder Kathleen Powell and Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany talk before a screening of Maslany's newest film, "Souls of Totality." (OLIVIA POPP/The Stanford Daily)

‘Orphan Black’ star Tatiana Maslany talks generosity, collaboration and loving the weird

Olivia Popp
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March 16, 2018
Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

‘A Wrinkle in Time’ is Disney’s dizzying failed attempt at creating a trippy sci-fi/fantasy dream

Olivia Popp
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March 9, 2018
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Phantasmagoria may be the saving grace of ‘Annihilation’

Noah Howard
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March 5, 2018
David Sullivan and Shane Carruth in "Primer" (Courtesy of StudioCanal).

Shane Carruth’s headscratcher sci-fi ‘Primer’

Olivia Popp
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May 18, 2017
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter in 'Planet of the Apes' (Courtesy of 20th Century Fox).

The original ‘Planet of the Apes’ is innovative and refreshing

Olivia Popp
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March 9, 2017
Sienna Guillory in a scene from Ben Wheatley's sci-fi "High-Rise." (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

Film review: “High-Rise” deals capitalism a pseudo-low-blow

Connor Huchton
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May 12, 2016
Arts & Life
Courtesy of Syfy

Remote Nomad: ‘Eureka’ finale goes to extremes to wrap up loose ends

Aaron Broder
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Aug. 16, 2012
Arts & Life
Courtesy of HarperCollins

Honey, I shrunk the grad students

Sarah Guan
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Dec. 2, 2011
Arts & Life
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Review: “Terra Nova”

Alex Bayer
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Oct. 21, 2011
Arts & Life
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Author finds humanity in sci-fi books

Sarah Guan
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Oct. 14, 2011
Arts & Life
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Stuff We Love: Doctor Who

Eliana Carmona
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Sept. 30, 2011
The Stanford Daily

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