So there may be some trepidation for those weighing whether to watch their new show. But 3 Body Problem has all the ingredients that made those early seasons of Game of Thrones so compelling: jaw-dropping set pieces, a web of interpersonal conflict, and an existential threat slowly marching toward the gates. For me, there were so many scenes in the …
Would you live in a world that is supremely comfortable, where robots do all the work and all disease has been eliminated? That’s the universe Issac Asimov imagines in The Naked Sun, a murder mystery set on a planet called Solaria. If you are sick of reading about disease in the news and hence not inclined to get an additional …
The Covid-19 pandemic all but halted Hollywood. Even if you’ve never read the Asimov novels, which were first published in the 1950s, every science fiction fan has felt their influence, especially in genre classics like Star Wars. He can’t talk much about his new show yet, but WIRED still picked his brain about Asimov, Covid-19, and genre fiction’s unique capacity …
