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...
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Why I’ve Spent Forty Years Watching Sci-Fi Get the Future Wrong (And Why That’s Actually Perfect)
Science fiction has rarely been about predicting the future; it has mostly been a reflection of today – and that’s part of the reason I...
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Why Time Travel Stories Stopped Being Fun (And Started Making Me Think Too Hard)
You know, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this subject – probably too much time as a retiree thinking about fictitious time machines....
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How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Taught This Engineer to Appreciate Science Fiction as Art
It was 1983 and my wife rented the movie Blade Runner on VHS – at that time video rental stores were relatively new and renting...