Annalee Newitz

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do. ”

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door. ”

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers. ”

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years. ”

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'. ”

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time. ”

The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose. ”

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops. ”

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before. ”

The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film. ”