The Creator
{4.5/5} “‘What do you want, sweetie?’ ‘For robots to be free.’ ‘Oh. We don’t have that in the fridge. How about ice cream?’” The Creator, released in 2023 AI detonated a nuclear bomb and killed a million people, so now it’s outlawed in the West. Joshua is living in a community in New Asia with […]
Futurama (season 7)
{4.5/5} “Well, I never liked going to Omicron Persei 8 anyway. If we want to breathe sulfuric acid and get our heads torn off by giant lizards, we can always go to Gary, Indiana.” Futurama season 7, aired in 2012-13 Bender has a baby robot but doesn’t think he wants to be a farther, until […]
The Dispossessed
{5/5} “The only security we have is our neighbors’ approval. An archist can break a law and hope to get away unpunished, but you can’t ‘break’ a custom; it’s the framework of your life with other people. We’re only just beginning to feel what it’s like to be revolutionaries… And it isn’t comfortable.” The Dispossessed […]
Starplex
{5/5} “Each person contemplated the small fuzzy blot of light that would give rise to all of them, contemplated the fact that they were farther out in space than anyone had ever been before, contemplated the vastly empty darkness all around them. Six billion light-years.” Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1996 Due to […]
Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 4)
{5/5} “This ship is outdated and smells like Borg.” — T’Lyn, on the USS Voyager Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, aired in 2023 When the USS Voyager is being prepared to be a museum the crew of the Cerritos visits and they find it’s still a dangerous place. Mariner, Boimler, and Tendi all get […]
Starter Villain
{4.5/5} “Your uncle is in parking garages because they fund his more important work… Which is to seek out, fund and create the sort of technologies and services that bring disruptive change to existing industrial and social paradigms, and offer them, on a confidential basis, to interested businesses and governments.” Starter Villain by John Scalzi, […]
Babylon 5: The Road Home
{5/5} “Zathras warn, but no one listen to Zathras.” Babylon 5: The Road Home, released in 2023 When John Sheridan leaves Babylon 5 to become the President of the Interstellar Alliance he goes to his new home on Minbar. He opens a new energy facility only to discover too late that it uses tachyons. He […]
The Pod Generation
{4.5/5} “At Pegazus, we want fulfilled mothers. We want them to pursue their careers and dreams. So let us do the heavy lifting while you enjoy your babies.” The Pod Generation, released in 2023 Rachel wants to have a baby but doesn’t want to get pregnant. She is doing well at work and gets an […]
Courtship Rite
{4.5/5} “He was Prime Predictor because the prophesies he had registered in the Archives as a youth had been more accurate than the vision of any other Kaiel. That was how the Kaiel elected their leader. He would be Prime Predictor until he died or retired or was ousted by a man who had proved […]
Futurama (season 6)
{4.5/5} “Lrrr, you lazy ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8. You said you would conquer a planet today but you have not even shed your skin yet.” — Ndnd Futurama season 6, aired in 2010-11 The wormhole that the Planet Express ship went through led them back to Earth. Leela and Fry have become […]