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...
Space Aesthetic
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Why Mistborn’s Jump to Space Scares Me More Than Alien
I’ve been editing trailers for sci-fi films for over fifteen years, and there’s this moment that happens in every production meeting where someone pitches an...
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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 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...
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Why Romance in Space Operas Makes This Old Engineer Cry (And I’m Not Ashamed)
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...
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The Sci-Fi Shows and Movies That Actually Got Space Physics Right (And Why It Matters)
I was probably fourteen when I first watched 2001: A Space Odyssey in my friend Jake’s basement, and honestly? It completely screwed up my expectations...
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When Starships Meet Sorcery: An Engineer’s Guide to Stories That Break All the Rules
You know, after forty years of designing spacecraft components, you’d think I’d be a purist about keeping science fiction and fantasy in their separate corners....
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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...
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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 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...
