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Not all nightmares are so easy to wake up from. An exploration of Simon Stålenhag’s brilliant worldbuilding artbook ‘The Electric State.’

Discover the incredible (and hilarious) ways that video games can simulate evolution. From Conway’s ‘Game of Life’ to Evolution by Keiwan, we’ll look at how games and other simulations can reproduce natural selection.

I have no mouth… and I must scream. An exploration of Evolutionary Horror — from the Qu, to the Xenomorphs, to The Last of Us. Welcome to the scariest hidden genre in Sci-Fi. --- If I were to ask you ‘what is the scariest type of science fiction?’ you probably wouldn’t say ‘Evolutionary Horror.’ …Mainly because it’s a name I came up with for this video, but also because it doesn’t sound particularly frightening. Evolution isn’t scary… or is it? Twisting through the history of sci-fi is a hidden subgenre that derives terror from the altered self — from the uncanny dread of a force beyond our control evolving the human into the inhuman. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll uncover the terrors of this category, and dive into the type of sci-fi that I find the most fear-provoking of all…