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 ...

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 ...