Week 13 delivered six articles, thirteen sci-fi franchises, and a new column record for Douglas Adams at five appearances—one for every invisible thing running beneath the surface of the week's arguments about water, surveillance, credit, protection, and a Lego set in near-space.

Six articles, fourteen sci-fi franchises, and a week that kept asking the same prior question in six different registers: who wrote the parameters, and what happens when someone decides to find out?

Five articles, eighteen sci-fi franchises, and one clinical finding—"aloneness and discontinuity of itself"—that arrived in the same week HAL 9000 appeared in three articles without being invited to any of them.

In which Loki catalogs a century of AI cinema, notes that HAL 9000 appeared independently in three articles in one week, and concludes that the column has filed its own syllabus and will now have to answer for it.

Six articles, thirteen franchises, one bracket that went 42-for-96, two April Fools pieces published on April Fools Day by accident, and the week Asimov showed up with a plan that basketball immediately destroyed.

Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.

By Loki

Welcome back to Sci-fi Saturday, the weekly accounting exercise in which I forensically inventory every sci-fi franchise I referenced across the preceding seven days, like an auditor who developed a reading problem and has no intention of getting it treated.

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