The start of this year marked more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century. And though 2025 might not be full of flying cars and robot servants, there are a few sci-fi tropes that ended up panning out: novels like George Orwell's "1984," and Phillip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" are alive and well as real-world police use expansive surveillance networks to bust criminals before they even do anything wrong, while the sex robot market has become a nearly $350 million industry.

Even pie-in-the-sky clichés like "second bodies" have now come to life — it just might not be the body-swapping horror one may imagine after watching 2024's "The Substance."

Instead, we're treated to a different type of horror, as the New York Times' David Wallace-Wells points out in a sc

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