Teaching Star Wars Made Me Realize It’s Not Really Science Fiction (And That’s Okay)
So there I was last Tuesday, trying to convince my AP students that Fahrenheit 451 deserves a spot on their summer reading list, when Marcus...
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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 Future Clothes Tell Stories Better Than Dialog Ever Could
I was about fifteen minutes into my third viewing of Blade Runner 2049 when I stopped caring about the plot entirely. Not because it’s bad...
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Building a Sci-Fi Library That Actually Matters – A Film Editor’s Take on Books Worth Your Time
I spent way too long last weekend reorganizing my bookshelves, which is what happens when you’re procrastinating on actual work. But while I was moving...
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What Actually Makes Science Fiction Work (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)
Had this argument with my neighbour Janet last month that’s been bugging me ever since. She was going on about how Star Wars isn’t real...
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Those Weird 80s Sci-Fi Shows That Rewired My Brain Before I Knew What Good TV Was
Look, I need to be honest about something that’s been bugging me for years. Everyone talks about how great modern sci-fi television is, and yeah,...
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When Fiction Feels Too Much Like Engineering Specs: Dystopian Novels That Hit Different After 40 Years in Aerospace
I was tinkering with some old satellite telemetry data last week when a news alert popped up on my tablet about facial recognition software being...
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Why Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem Actually Makes Cosmic Horror Accessible
I’ve been recommending Liu Cixin’s *Three-Body Problem* to hesitant sci-fi readers for about a decade now, and I’ve learned something interesting: the people who bounce...
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When Movie Monsters Follow Real Biology Rules – Why ‘Life’ Still Haunts My Engineering Brain
You ever watch a sci-fi movie and find yourself mentally cataloging all the ways the physics don’t work? Yeah, occupational hazard of four decades in...
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Hidden Sci-Fi Gems That’ll Make You Question Why Nobody’s Talking About Them
You know that moment when you discover something amazing and immediately want to grab everyone by the shoulders and ask why they didn’t tell you...