What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in our galaxy? And what if this faraway planet was home to billions of humans, ...

Imagine looking into the mirror and seeing a completely different version of humanity, one with huge eyes, advanced technology wired into the brain, and even the ability to regrow lost limbs. While it ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

Science fiction has been warning us for decades. But the most dangerous version of anthropomorphism is not a robot uprising. It is something quieter more intimate and already beginning.

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These three connected stories about the whole of human history can’t quite sustain the necessary emotional heft.