When Bruce Willis Actually Gets Sci-Fi Right (And When He Really Doesn’t)
I was probably around fourteen when *The Fifth Element* first rotated into my regular rewatch cycle, right around the time I was getting deep into...
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Building Tomorrow’s Cities: What Sci-Fi Gets Right (And Very Wrong) About Vertical Living
I was hunched over my editing bay last Tuesday, cutting together some corporate footage of downtown Austin’s skyline, when I started thinking about why most...
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Why Most “Greatest Sci-Fi” Lists Are Missing Half the Story (And Which Books Actually Deserve Recognition)
You know what drives me absolutely crazy? Every time I see another “greatest science fiction novels of all time” list floating around the internet, it’s...
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Why These Weird Sci-Fi Anime Hit Different Than Everything Else
I was debugging some janky physics in a space combat game last Tuesday when Serial Experiments Lain started playing on my second monitor — just...
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Why Romance in Space Operas Makes This Old Engineer Cry (And I’m Not Ashamed)
Last Thursday I was tinkering in my workshop, half-watching some terrible space opera movie my wife had left on while she folded laundry, when suddenly...
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When Morgan Made Me Remember Why Most Sci-Fi Movies Are Cowards
Man, there’s this thing that happens with sci-fi movies that just makes me want to throw my controller across the room. You know the feeling?...
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Why I Finally Started Reading Black Science Fiction Authors (And You Should Too)
You know how sometimes you read a book that makes you realise you’ve been thinking about something completely wrong for decades? That happened to me...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Movies Never Get Old While Others Feel Ancient After Five Years
You ever watch a movie from like 1968 and somehow it still hits harder than something that came out last year? I mean, I was...
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When Sci-Fi Horror Gets Under Your Skin and Won’t Let Go
I was maybe sixteen, sprawled on my parents’ couch in suburban Houston with a beat-up paperback copy of *Annihilation* that I’d grabbed from the library’s...
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Why Science Fiction Isn’t Actually About Science (And Why That’s the Point)
The first time someone told me science fiction was “just robots and rockets,” I nearly spilled my coffee all over my copy of *The Left...