Futurama occupies a curious place in the history of science fiction media. The animated television show, created by Matt Groening, is both science fiction comedy and science fiction parody. It engages with a rich history of science fiction, representing and reimagining it within its own universe, while at the same time developing its own ideas [...]
For my final project I plan to map and and display, in an interactive fashion, the world of New New York City from the television show Futurama on top of a map of New York City circa 1999. Futurama, first released in 1999, features a main character, Philip J. Fry, who is frozen on December [...]
Much of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot is concerned with what almost seem logic puzzles, stories where the complications of the three laws of robotics cause robots to malfunction or otherwise act in ways not originally intended. However, the first full chapter of the book, titled “Robbie”, breaks this mold. It is instead a story humanizing [...]
Science fiction is, first and foremost, a fiction. It can take multiple forms, be those prose, poetry, film, radio, digital media, the list is nearly inexhaustible. But still, in those forms the work must be a fiction. “Science fact,” after all, would be a physics textbook, or maybe an episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. While [...]
