Pick up any science fiction book from the 1960s, and you’ll find parallel dimensions explained through magic portals or mysterious machines that work “just because.” Today’s readers want stories that ...

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Dark Matter introduces viewers to a mind-bending way of multiverse travel involving a mysterious box. But even by the end of the series, people are left with multiple questions about how the box works ...

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In the new Apple TV+ miniseries Dark Matter, Joel Edgerton plays Jason Dessen, a science teacher who gets abducted by a version of himself from a parallel reality. This other Jason — call him Jason2 — ...

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I can’t be the only one here displeased by our current timeline. It’s pretty hard to experience endless COVID, debates about whether it’s genocide or just a little ethnic cleansing, and climate change ...