I have only read three chapters of Lauren Groff’s new novel, “Matrix” and yet it is already my favorite book of the year. How can this be? I am having an incredible “slow book” experience. To ...

The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956, but one way or another it has been the subject of just about every great science-fiction movie, from “Metropolis” to “Frankenstein,” from the ...

The year “The Matrix” came out — 1999 — already had a very sci-fi sound to it. It was the year Prince had imagined as the run-up to the apocalypse, a premonition that would be echoed in the Y2K ...