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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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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Science Fiction Space Stations How They Become Worlds
Have you ever tried explaining to someone why you care so much about fictional places that don’t actually exist? I was having coffee with my...
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Expanse Sci Fi Series Why It Stands Out Among Space Operas
I was halfway through building a scale model of a fusion drive when *The Expanse* first crossed my radar. My sister had mentioned it offhandedly...
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Sci Fi Space Movies That Take You Beyond the Stars
The first time I properly understood what science fiction could do to you was sitting in a cramped Leicester Square cinema in 1982, watching Blade...
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Sci Fi Warships The Appeal of Futuristic Naval Power
There’s something about watching a massive battleship fire its main guns that makes your chest vibrate, even in a movie theatre. I was maybe twelve...
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Forty Years of Real Spacecraft Taught Me Why Hollywood Space Travel Makes Me Cringe
I’ve been watching science fiction butcher the physics of space travel for decades now, and honestly? It still gets under my skin every time. After...
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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...