Moon (2009) explained: echoes of future memory
A meaty read explaining the twists in sci-fi gem Moon – and what it says about isolation and us
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Ex Machina (2014) explained: the empathy question
We worry computers will be the end of us. Ex Machina asks instead: what if they just want to be free?
Alien: Covenant (2017) explained – colonialism and creation
Deconstructing Covenant, the 2017 prequel to the Alien franchise
Ambiguity of existence: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? explained
Dissecting the real and fake in the book that inspired Blade Runner
I, Robot (2004) and the two brothers theory
Slavery, sci-fi and the two brothers explanation of I, Robot
Terminator 2 (1991) at 30: are we machine?
Unpacking the social and storyelling tensions at the heart of Terminator 2