Finding Sci-Fi Podcasts That Actually Get It Right
I was elbow-deep in colour correction on some corporate training video about workplace safety when my headphones started playing something that made me completely forget...
Sci Fi Aesthetic
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How Science Fiction Authors Accidentally Built Our World (And My Students Keep Proving It)
There’s this dog-eared copy of *Neuromancer* that sits on my classroom windowsill, held together by sheer willpower and probably some leftover coffee stains. Last week,...
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Why These Recent Sci-Fi Films Actually Matter (And I’m Not Just Being Pretentious)
I was debugging the same stupid UI glitch for the fourth hour straight last Tuesday when my roommate cranked up *Dune: Part Two* in the...
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When Bruce Willis Actually Gets Sci-Fi Right (And When He Really Doesn’t)
I was probably around fourteen when *The Fifth Element* first rotated into my regular rewatch cycle, right around the time I was getting deep into...
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Building Tomorrow’s Cities: What Sci-Fi Gets Right (And Very Wrong) About Vertical Living
I was hunched over my editing bay last Tuesday, cutting together some corporate footage of downtown Austin’s skyline, when I started thinking about why most...
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Why Most Space Art Looks Fake (And How I’m Trying to Fix It)
So there I was, probably three years ago now, scrolling through some concept art for yet another Mars colonization project when it hit me –...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Just Won’t Die (And Most Does)
I was reorganizing my game collection last week — trying to make room for the new Mass Effect remaster because apparently I need to own...
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Why Most “Greatest Sci-Fi” Lists Are Missing Half the Story (And Which Books Actually Deserve Recognition)
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...
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Why These Weird Sci-Fi Anime Hit Different Than Everything Else
I was debugging some janky physics in a space combat game last Tuesday when Serial Experiments Lain started playing on my second monitor — just...
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Why I Keep Coming Back to Steam-Powered Spaceships and Clockwork Time Machines
There’s this moment in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” where Captain Nemo adjusts a brass valve, steam hisses from somewhere deep in the Nautilus, and...
