Why Space Opera Still Gets My Old Engineer Heart Racing After All These Years
You know what happened last Tuesday? I was up on the stepladder trying to fix that wobbly shelf in my study — the one where...
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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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Good Sci Fi Series That Start Strong and Stay Fun
The other night, I found myself three episodes deep into a rewatch of *The Expanse* when my neighbour knocked on the door complaining about the...
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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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How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Taught This Engineer to Appreciate Science Fiction as Art
I first encountered Blade Runner in 1983, about a year after it hit theatres. My wife had rented it on VHS – this was back...
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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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How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Taught This Engineer to Appreciate Science Fiction as Art
It was 1983 and my wife rented the movie Blade Runner on VHS – at that time video rental stores were relatively new and renting...
