Author Marc Cushman’s first installment of his “These Are the Voyages," an exhaustive three-volume set devoted to the making of the original Star Trek television series, was publ… Read More

It was uncomfortably chilly on the night we saw each other last. I remember the methane snowflakes and the carbon ice, the first time around. The landscape around the Plume had an unusually… Read More

Videodrome is the best movie ever made about Facebook. What felt “vaguely futuristic” about it in 1983 is prescient today: technology and media are ever more intimate, personal… Read More

The modern media environment has provided more opportunities than ever for creative minds to come up with startling new stories and characters. However, there are certain characters that see… Read More

The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of other lifeforms in the universe and humanity's lack of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. For every… Read More

The human brain has spawned a parallel universe of imagined lifeforms, landforms, and civilizations. Though usually conceived of as fiction, this parallel universe often leaks into various E… Read More

If an astronaut says something profound in space, does anybody hear him? Most astronauts are not known for their conversational skills. But every so often an astronaut comes up with a zinger… Read More

Floating cities on Venus, it sounds like something Hugo Gernsback would have published in the pulp era of science fiction, but colonizing the second planet from the sun may not be as impossi… Read More

Leonard Nimoy once said, "Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special." Comm… Read More

Today a cup of java will help you make it through the day. Tomorrow, it may help you solve complex mathematics equations and mysteries of the universe.The post Java From Hell – Coffee… Read More

Back to the Future is one of the best movies of all time. Produced by Steven Spielberg, it stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. Fox pla… Read More

It was uncomfortably chilly on the night we saw each other last. I remember the methane snow flakes and the carbon ice, the first time around. The landscape around Yar's Plume had unusually… Read More

Today more than 20 nations have developed or are close to developing drone technology. The largest exporter of drone technology is Israel, and it should be no surprise that the nation with t… Read More

Each Man was sentenced to write a Man, who was sentenced to write a Man.The post Meet A Writer On Verge Of Insanity appeared first on OMNI Reboot Read More

If robots are built in the image of people, one day they may express the same emotions as people, including love. The creation of robots which look and act like human women would radically c… Read More

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn’t it?” Rand spoke these words in The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time' but they are jus… Read More

Seinfeld, the defining 30-minute sitcom that dominated the entire decade of 1990's entertainment, was the brainchild of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. For over a quarter of century, so many… Read More

Frank Herbet was born in 1920. Growing up during the Great Depression his young mind could envision worlds and histories that no man had walked on, and no civilization had experienced. But e… Read More

Space: The Sexual Frontier. In Will Stape's Star Trek Sex, he explores the fun, sexy, flashy, and lusty world of the original Trek. Covering important and sexually charged moments in the ser… Read More

Space: The Sexual Frontier. In Will Stape's Star Trek Sex, he explores the fun, sexy, flashy, and lusty world of the original Trek. Covering important and sexually charged moments in the ser… Read More

A painter of fantastic futures and one of the worlds leading visionaries of speculative fiction is Vincent Di Fate. The New York-born artist invented worlds where finned-starships en route t… Read More

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” chief executive of Tesla and Space X Elon Musk eerily warned listeners at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics departm… Read More

The difference between religious fundamentalism and fanaticism is belief and action. One could be a fundamentalist in any given religion and believe in the literal truth of their holy script… Read More

There was an event. Maybe it was a nuclear meltdown, maybe it was an alien visitation. We examine two Soviet science fiction classics: Roadside Picnic and Stalker...The post Similarities In… Read More

We've explored places on Earth, from the bombed Bikini Atoll to the Anthrax-riddled Soviet island of Vozrozhdeniya, that the hubris of war have rendered uninhabitable. But it doesn't take Co… Read More

From a lonely tower looming above the subterranean city of wishes, one man watches over everything. Hiis shift is ending soon, and it's time for a new in the fictional tale, The Watcher.The… Read More

Ben Bova was the editor of the original OMNI for five years. We talk to the master. The post Interview With Science Fiction Author Ben Bova appeared first on OMNI Reboot Read More

Ben Bova was the editor of the original OMNI for five years. We talk to the master. The post An Interview With Science Fiction Author Ben Bova appeared first on OMNI Reboot Read More

Up to this point, HELGA had been following the complex set of instructions which Jay-L created for her as part of an emergency action list to be executed in the event that he could not be lo… Read More

From Facebook page to science channel contributor, I F*cking Love Science has helped break down stereotypes within the scientific community. Founded on the principle of disseminating informa… Read More

A car accident in an empty world extinguishes a hidden life. An animal bears witness. The post Alone, In The Car, And In The Dark appeared first on OMNI Reboot Read More

There is a soul. Ironically, it was the skeptical world of science that has helped prove the theological doctrine of the spiritual world. The moment of astral disembodiment in which the ener… Read More

With all the unknown objects and happenings beyond our control going on in outer space, as human beings we can’t help but wonder what the chances are of extraterrestrial disasters havi… Read More

The stuff of parapsychology, super nature, and the occult is partly flotsam, thrown up to the surface of life by currents and eddies in the Lifetide, and partly jetsam, abandoned to the tide… Read More

Remember when The Curtain went up? The only viable solution, extreme as it was, to save humanity from Earth's rapidly hyper-toxifying, invisibly over-saturating air. A superstructure, ten mi… Read More

How many golf balls can fit inside a school bus? If you don’t have an answer, then you don’t have what it takes to work at Google. Seemingly random questions like these have beco… Read More

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey CIA Director 1981. UFOs have baffled and fascinated… Read More

Ask a Westerner what most surprised them about their trip to China. If they were not staying in a five-star hotel in a major city on the dime of a major Chinese corporation, most likely you… Read More

My new book, Discognition, looks at science fiction in order to think about questions of consciousness. Each of us knows that he or she is conscious; and most of us take it for granted that… Read More

In 2012, 33,561 people were killed in motor vehicle accidents. The CEO of Tesla Motors announced in 2015 that Tesla cars would handle 90 percent of driving within five years. This plan incl… Read More

Your Apple iPhone may not spontaneously combust, but be careful with those hoverboards. The day may come when Apple has its own hoverboard, sleek and white, followed rapidly by a full-scale… Read More

Gil Musial didn't know what the old landline would bring, or that purple Crocs could be currency. New fiction from Bruce Sterling. The post Analog Tale For A Digital Age appeared first on OM… Read More

Music may be art, but a live concert is more science. The variety and potential of visual technologies designed for live performances exploded in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Credit Moo… Read More

“Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.” Star Trek legend George Takei speaks to a generation science fiction pione… Read More

Joanna checked the weather app on her watch. Tornadoes likely, flooding possible in the evening, and a chance of earthquakes at night. She grabbed a fluffy red scarf off the rungs in her clo… Read More

I will admit I was one of those people who, growing up on the old 1970’s sci-fi shows, had no real interest in a Battlestar Galactica reboot or re-imagining. I would rather have seen a… Read More