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....
Books & Literature
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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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What Actually Makes Science Fiction Work (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)
Had this argument with my neighbour Janet last month that’s been bugging me ever since. She was going on about how Star Wars isn’t real...
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Why I Still Hunt Down Physical Sci-Fi Magazines (And You Should Too)
So there I was last weekend, elbow-deep in my closet trying to find that ancient extension cord, when I knocked over this precarious stack of...
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Why Science Fiction Actually Gets Me Through Teaching Teenagers About Life
You know that moment in class when a kid who hasn’t spoken all semester suddenly raises their hand during a discussion of *The Hunger Games*...
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Why Every Sci-Fi Weapon Tells a Story About Power (And What We’re Afraid Of)
You know what’s weird? I was at a sci-fi convention three years ago – one of those smaller ones in South Jersey where they actually...
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When Fiction Feels Too Much Like Engineering Specs: Dystopian Novels That Hit Different After 40 Years in Aerospace
I was tinkering with some old satellite telemetry data last week when a news alert popped up on my tablet about facial recognition software being...
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Teaching Star Wars Made Me Realize It’s Not Really Science Fiction (And That’s Okay)
So there I was last Tuesday, trying to convince my AP students that Fahrenheit 451 deserves a spot on their summer reading list, when Marcus...
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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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Why I Had to Stop Recommending the Same Old Sci-Fi Books (And What Changed Everything)
Man, I used to be such a terrible sci-fi evangelist. Like, really bad at it. Someone would ask me for book recommendations and I’d immediately...
