Why Sci Fi Fiction Continues to Inspire Future Dreamers
Last week, I watched a twelve-year-old explain to her grandmother how she’d redesigned the kitchen layout using principles borrowed from *The Martian*. “See, Grandma, we...
Retro Futurism
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Designing the Perfect Sci Fi Outfit for Future Worlds
You know that moment when you’re watching a sci-fi film and something just feels *wrong* about what the characters are wearing? Maybe it’s too clean,...
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Why VHS Was the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Discovery (And Streaming Will Never Match It)
You know, I was cleaning out my garage last week and found a box of old VHS tapes buried under some satellite component manuals from...
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Hard Sci-Fi How to Write Realistic Scientific Futures
The coffee was getting cold while I stared at my screen, trying to figure out why my latest story felt like cardboard. I’d spent weeks...
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Metropolis Review The Silent Film That Predicted Every Dystopia After It
Movie Review: Metropolis | The Silent Film That Predicted Every Dystopia After It Look, I’m never going to convince Dylan or Max on this, and...
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Edge Of Tomorrow Review The Tom Cruise Time Loop That Deserved A Bigger Audience
Edge Of Tomorrow Review: The Time Loop Movie You’ve Never Seen Alright, alright. I know you’re all thinking it – how can you call Edge...
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Snow Crash Review Neal Stephensons Chaotic Cyberpunk Satire Predicted The Metaverse
Snow Crash first hit my desk in 1992, just as I was starting to get sick of reading dreary cyberpunk novels trying to replicate Neuromancer....
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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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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...
