Escape Velocity

A curated Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Media

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Review: Ex Machina – Alex Garland

When Caleb, a nobody programmer at a Big Tech firm is invited to the isolated home of the company’s CEO, he has no idea that he will serve as the examiner in a test of an advanced artificial intelligence developed by the CEO. Will Caleb believe that AI is capable of thoughts, feelings and consciousness even though he is aware it is artificial? As Caleb and the AI get to know each other, a bond forms that will set in motion a sequence of events going much further than the CEO had anticipated.

Review: Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey

Jim Holden serves on an interplanetary ice hauler when disaster strikes. He and a handful of his crewmates are thrust into the center of an encroaching conflict between the superpowers of the solar system: Earth and Mars. Joe Miller works security on the most populous space station in the Kuyper Belt until his investigations lead him to a mysterious connection with the cause of the looming war.

The Three Body Problem

Review: The Three Body Problem – Liu Cixin

Part one of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy – Wang Miao is recruited to infiltrate a secretive organisation of scientists connected to a series of suicides, and takes up a mysterious videogame, Three Body, in the process.