Neuromancer Review William Gibsons Cyberpunk Bible Still Reads Like A Fever Dream
Alright, it’s Luna here again and I need to hash something out because team Lunacon is having some serious disagreements about Neuromancer . Dylan swears...
Books & Literature
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Best Sci Fi Books Ranked: The Novels That Built The Genre From The Ground Up
Quinn kicked things off (as always) by arguing that Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy belongs on the list based solely on cultural impact. “Fourteen million...
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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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When Sci-Fi Stopped Being Fiction and Started Being My Job Training
Something strange happened to me recently. I’ve been working in game testing for a while now, and I find myself playing the games I grew...
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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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Hard Science vs. Good Story: My Forty Years of Figuring Out What Actually Matters
Okay, look. I’ve been reading science fiction for almost fifty years now. In that time I’ve had more conversations about scientific accuracy than any halfway...
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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 Every Sci-Fi Story I Love Eventually Asks “What Makes You Human?”
As I’ve been reshelfing books down in the stacks recently, I’ve found myself mulling over how every truly excellent work of science fiction I’ve read...
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The Problem with Tidy Endings in Our Broken Worlds
When I walk into a theatre and see a post-apocalyptic story being told in some new form (whether it’s a blockbuster or a low-budget indie),...
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Why Every Good Sci-Fi Story Needs Its Freaks (And I’m Not Sorry About It)
There are many questions, that come up in virtually every class I teach science fiction to high schoolers about, including the query: “Do we need...
