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A dedicated fan page catalogs details about the 1970 British sci-fi television series UFO, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and starring Ed Bishop as Commander Straker. The site serves as an archival resource for fans of the show, which depicted a secret organization defending Earth from alien incursions.
Nature's science-fiction feature Futures ran a short story depicting numbered workers confined to a windowless facility, sedated with pills and coffee, weaving filaments under fluorescent light while elders recall a vanished world of trees. The piece imagines a future where natural landscapes have been erased and human labor is mechanized, monitored, and chemically controlled.
A cultural essay examines why science fiction media overwhelmingly favors dystopian and pessimistic futures rather than hopeful ones, citing examples from Metropolis and 1984 to Elysium and Terminator. The piece traces this tendency to sci-fi's role as a vehicle for social critique and to the genre's habit of dramatizing unchecked or unequal technology as the source of societal collapse.
A new speculative fiction piece from Nature Futures follows Melba, an employee managing the Lost Luggage Department at a nearly abandoned interstellar flight headquarters. The story details how travelers' bags are shrunk via molecular-reduction technology before space voyages, and how some end up misrouted for decades, eventually landing in Melba's basement office filled with stacks of miniaturized suitcases.
Sixty years after its 1966 debut, Star Trek is being credited with popularizing several concepts that eventually became real-world technologies. Despite airing only three seasons before cancellation, the show grew into a massive media franchise with films, spinoffs and merchandise, and its speculative gadgets influenced generations of engineers and inventors.
An essay dissects the common sci-fi trope of depicting wormholes as flat, circular portals with tunnel-like interiors resembling a hole dug by a worm. The author explains that this image stems from misreading two-dimensional diagrams of Einstein-Rosen bridges, which were never meant to represent how a real three-dimensional wormhole would actually appear to an observer.