Her Review The Love Story Between A Man And His Operating System
Luna keeps telling me that Her is the most technically realistic depiction of artificial intelligence I’ll ever see on film. Max says it’s pretentious Oscar...
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Why Most Sci-Fi Critics Miss the Point (And What Actually Makes Great Science Fiction)
With forty years of designing real spacecraft and reading science fiction stories imagining futures that I wanted to help create, I’ve developed a few opinions...
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Forty Years of Real Spacecraft Taught Me Why Hollywood Space Travel Makes Me Cringe
It’s been forty years since I began working on real spacecraft propulsion systems and forty years that Hollywood has been twisting physics to suit space-faring...
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Why Hollywood’s Aliens Keep Making the Same Bad Real Estate Decisions
You know what really grinds my gears after forty years in aerospace engineering? How Hollywood aliens never make good tactical decisions. I spend my days...
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The Science Fiction Fan Theories That Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
What happens when you’ve spent <a href=”https://dystopianlens.co.uk/from-dystopia-to-utopia-how-sci-fi-uses-the-future-to-reflect-our-present-day-hopes-and-fears/”>forty years</a> designing real spacecraft? You find yourself analysing and deconstructing every piece of science fiction you come across....
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Five Brilliant Sci-Fi Shows That Got Shortchanged by Networks and Viewers
Sci-Fi Says No Presents My Favorite Science Fiction Shows that Got Screwed Over by Networks Ask me what pisses me off about modern sci-fi and...
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From Square-Jawed Heroes to Digital Prophets: How Sci-Fi Characters Grew Up Alongside Me
Sorting through boxes in the garage recently, I unearthed a stash of old Amazing Stories magazines dating back to the 1970s. Amazing Stories, for any...
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Why VHS Was the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Discovery (And Streaming Will Never Match It)
Last week I was cleaning out my garage, and I stumbled on a box of old VHS tapes I’d forgotten about under a stack of...
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When Science Fiction Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
Full disclosure: having spent forty years working in the aerospace industry designing spacecraft and devouring every hard science fiction book I could find since I...
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Been There, Done That: My Four Decades of Reading About the End of Everything
Full disclosure: This post has been slowly marinading in my head since shortly after I turned sixty. Hence its timing. Anyway… Having watched human spacecraft...
