Why Science Fiction Isn’t Actually About Science (And Why That’s the Point)
The first time someone told me science fiction was “just robots and rockets,” I nearly spilled my coffee all over my copy of *The Left...
The first time someone told me science fiction was “just robots and rockets,” I nearly spilled my coffee all over my copy of *The Left...
There’s this moment in *Blade Runner* when Deckard sits at that little noodle stand, rain hammering the plastic canopy above him, and you can almost...
I was rifling through a box of old VHS tapes last month when I stumbled across something that stopped me cold: a battered recording of...
You know how sometimes you read a book that makes you realise you’ve been thinking about something completely wrong for decades? That happened to me...
You know what drives me absolutely mad? When someone asks for sci-fi recommendations and gets the same tired list: *Black Mirror*, *The Expanse*, *Stranger Things*....
Last Thursday I was tinkering in my workshop, half-watching some terrible space opera movie my wife had left on while she folded laundry, when suddenly...
The first time someone asked me what science fiction actually *is*, I froze up completely. I mean, I’d been reading it for years, scribbling ideas...
I was maybe fourteen, sitting in our basement in suburban Chicago, when Babylon 5 completely rewired my brain about what sci-fi television could be. This...
You know what’s funny? I can pinpoint the exact moment I became a lifelong sci-fi fan, and it wasn’t watching *2001* or reading Asimov. It...
You know what drives me absolutely crazy? Every time I see another "greatest science fiction novels of all time" list floating around the internet, it's...