The Sci-Fi Books That Actually Broke My Brain (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
There’s this thing that happens when you finish certain books where you just… sit there. Like your brain needs a minute to recalibrate. Happened to...
Books & Literature
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When Star Wars Rewrote the Rules – How One Film Changed Everything About Science Fiction
Man, I can still see that theatre lobby in Houston, summer of '77. My dad had dragged the whole family to see this space movie...
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How Box Office Bombs Become Genre Legends: A Film Editor’s Take on Cult Sci-Fi
You know, there’s something almost perverse about how the sci-fi films we treasure most today were absolute disasters when they first hit theatres. I’m talking...
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When Dystopian Movies Stop Feeling Like Fiction and Start Feeling Like Previews
So there I was last Tuesday night, couldn’t sleep again, ended up putting on *Children of Men* for probably the tenth time this year. Something...
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The Sci-Fi Writers Who Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About the Genre
Three weeks ago, I did something I haven’t done in probably fifteen years — I walked into Powell’s Books and headed straight for the “New...
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The Sci-Fi Books That Broke My Brain (And Maybe Predicted Everything)
So there’s this moment that happens sometimes when you’re reading — like, you’re just sitting there turning pages and then WHAM, the book basically reprograms...
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Why Independent Sci-Fi Films Are Actually Keeping Real Science Fiction Alive
I don’t know about you guys but I’ve spent forty years designing thrusters for satellites and forty years watching Hollywood massacre science fiction movies with...
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When Science Fiction Goes Spectacularly Wrong: A Librarian’s Guide to Beautiful Disasters
After three decades of <a href=”https: //dystopianlens.co.uk/from-dystopia-to-utopia-how-sci-fi-uses-the-future-to-reflect-our-present-day-hopes-and-fears/”>reading science fiction</a> and fifteen years of writing about it, I imagined I had pretty much seen every permutation...
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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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The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Review Douglas Adams Proved Sci Fi Could Be Properly Funny
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Review: Douglas Adams Proved Sci-Fi Could Be Properly Funny It must have been around 1983 when I first read...
