#new-worlds-weekly stories

It seems only yesterday that we went to watch a macho action film because it had Arnold ‘Shivajinagar’ in it, …

Authors from William Gibson to Neil Gaiman have acknowledged its vast influence.

It’s not often that a producer of a Hollywood movie thanks peer-to-peer networks and illegal file-sharers for sharing his movie …

And discovered talent — from Martin Scorsese to James Cameron and Jack Nicholson

Gattaca is set in a future where non-genetically engineered people are deemed ‘in-valid’.

From time-loops and Groundhog Day to the Ramayana; from Flash Gordon to the weird, fantastically imagined world of India in …

With data rajas, AIs, robots, gods, water wars, nutes, Krishna Cops and divided into a dozen semi-independent states, it’s a familiar-yet-modern India, a hundred years after independence.

Do robots have feelings? Can a machine be ‘exploited’? What happens when androids become more ‘human’ and people less so? Get ready for a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the evolution of sin, and 50 shades of humanity

It’s full-blown nostalgia season. People are back to chasing Pokémon, this time literally. A few weeks ago, Super7 released the …

How certain are we that the world around us — as we perceive it — both exists and is real?

A classic of the post-apocalyptic subgenre, which asks, ‘What would happen if the world and civilization as we know it no longer existed?’

Prescient. Drug-addled. Prolific. Five times married. PKD was all of this. But never rich, never mainstream, never acknowledged as a serious writer while he lived, despite his massive contribution to our culture.