Philip K. Dick’s 1955 short story “Autofac” envisioned a post-apocalyptic world where the surviving humans are supplied their goods by a robotic system that cares nothing for the planet overall and ...

The second episode of Electric Dreams delves into an interesting nugget: What happens to a world designed for pure automation when that world finally ends? A nuclear war leaves a small group of humans ...

Even without the coup of casting Janelle Monáe—an artist whose sci-fi concept albums pay richer tribute to PKD’s work than some of this series has managed to—in the role of an android, Autofac would ...

If you can't see Janelle Monae live tonight, you can see her as one of the greatest robots ever filmed in "Autofac," which is a part of Amazon's Electric Dreams series and is based on Philip K. Dick’s ...