Why I Tell People Science Fiction Isn’t Just One Thing (And Why That Matters)
You know what happened to me last week that got me thinking? I’m in the break room at work, microwaving leftover pizza, and this new...
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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 Mistborn’s Jump to Space Scares Me More Than Alien
I’ve been editing trailers for sci-fi films for over fifteen years, and there’s this moment that happens in every production meeting where someone pitches an...
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Hunting for Good Sci-Fi in the Streaming Wars – A Video Editor’s Guide to What’s Actually Worth Watching
You know that look people give you when you try explaining why you’re rewatching *Blade Runner 2049* for the seventh time this month? I got...
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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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The Spin That Changes Everything: How Science Fiction Twists Reality (And Why That Matters)
I was watching *Arrival* again last week — probably my seventh or eighth time through, which is embarrassing to admit but here we are —...
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Why Sci-Fi Worlds Fall Apart (And How to Build Ones That Don’t)
I was cutting together footage for a corporate video last month—something about manufacturing efficiency, boring as hell—when I noticed something in the B-roll that stopped...
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Found This Australian Sci-Fi Gem at 2 AM and It Completely Changed My Mind About Independent Genre Films
You know how sometimes you’re scrolling through streaming services way too late, half-asleep but still hunting for that one film that’ll surprise you? That’s exactly...
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Three New Sci-Fi Shows That Actually Get It Right (And Why That’s Rarer Than You Think)
My phone buzzed at 2:47 AM last Tuesday—fallen asleep with my laptop on my chest again, terrible habit but occupational hazard when you spend all...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Books Escape the Genre Ghetto (And Most Don’t)
Last weekend I was killing time in this cluttered used bookstore on South Lamar when I caught two kids, maybe sixteen or seventeen, having this...