Why VHS Was the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Discovery (And Streaming Will Never Match It)
You know, I was cleaning out my garage last week and found a box of old VHS tapes buried under some satellite component manuals from...
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Why I Still Get Goosebumps Watching Model Spaceships Crash Into Each Other
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially after rewatching *The Thing* for probably the twentieth time last weekend. There’s something about those old...
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The Sci-Fi Reboots That Made Me Question Hollywood’s Soul
You know what? I need to get something off my chest about reboots, and honestly, it’s been eating at me for years now. Every time...
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When Science Fiction Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
You know, after four decades designing spacecraft and reading every piece of hard sci-fi I could get my hands on, I thought I was pretty...
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Hard Science vs. Good Story: My Forty Years of Figuring Out What Actually Matters
You know, after reading sci-fi for nearly five decades, I’ve gotten into more arguments about scientific accuracy than any reasonable librarian should. Just last month,...
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Pixels Beat Polygons: Why I Still Fire Up My Old Sci-Fi Games Instead of Modern Masterpieces
You know what I did last weekend instead of diving into whatever AAA sci-fi blockbuster just dropped? I fired up Asteroids on an old CRT...
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Why Dystopian Sci-Fi Keeps Me Up at Night (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
I’ve been obsessed with dystopian sci-fi for years now, and honestly? It’s kind of messing with my head. Not in a bad way – well,...
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Been There, Done That: My Four Decades of Reading About the End of Everything
You know, after forty years of watching real spacecraft leave Earth and reading about fictional ones fleeing dying worlds, I’ve come to realise something odd...
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Why Every Sci-Fi Story I Love Eventually Asks “What Makes You Human?”
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately while reshelfing books in the stacks – how every great science fiction story I’ve encountered in fifty...
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From HAL to Samantha: How My Obsession with AI Characters Shows We’re Finally Ready to Embrace Digital Consciousness
I still remember the first time HAL 9000’s calm, measured voice made my skin crawl. I was maybe fifteen, watching “2001: A Space Odyssey” on...