Dune Messiah: Does Paul Atreides’ Fall From Grace Still Resonate?
**Dune Messiah: Does Paul Atreides’ Fall From Grace Still Resonate?** John here, writing this because Diane and I have been having one of our ongoing...
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Threads Review The Most Devastating UK Nuclear War Film
Here’s the thing about nuclear war films: most of them focus on the bang and miss the whimper. Hollywood gives us mushroom clouds and dramatic...
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The Handmaids Tale Review The Dystopia That Stopped Feeling Like Fiction
# The Handmaid’s Tale Review: The Dystopia That Stopped Feeling Like Fiction Now, I need to be upfront about something. When Kathleen suggested we revisit...
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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...
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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 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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The Science Fiction Horror Books That Still Keep Me Up at Night
Last Tuesday I was sorting through my home office – well, what my wife generously calls an office but is really just where I pile...
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Why Nolan’s Time-Bending Thriller Makes My Engineering Brain Hurt (In the Best Way)
So there I was, settling into my usual seat at the Regal downtown — you know, row J, dead centre for optimal acoustics — when...
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Why Different Types of Sci-Fi Hit Us Where We Live
I was digging through my old storage boxes last weekend, looking for my slide rule (don’t laugh, I still use it sometimes), when I stumbled...
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When Starships Meet Sorcery: An Engineer’s Guide to Stories That Break All the Rules
You know, after forty years of designing spacecraft components, you’d think I’d be a purist about keeping science fiction and fantasy in their separate corners....