When Morgan Made Me Remember Why Most Sci-Fi Movies Are Cowards
Man, there's this thing that happens with sci-fi movies that just makes me want to throw my controller across the room. You know the feeling?...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Movies Never Get Old While Others Feel Ancient After Five Years
You ever watch a movie from like 1968 and somehow it still hits harder than something that came out last year? I mean, I was...
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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 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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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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The Science Fiction Horror Books That Still Keep Me Up at Night
Last Tuesday I was sorting through my home office – well, what my wife generously calls an office but is really just where I pile...
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Why Nolan’s Time-Bending Thriller Makes My Engineering Brain Hurt (In the Best Way)
So there I was, settling into my usual seat at the Regal downtown — you know, row J, dead centre for optimal acoustics — when...
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Why Different Types of Sci-Fi Hit Us Where We Live
I was digging through my old storage boxes last weekend, looking for my slide rule (don’t laugh, I still use it sometimes), when I stumbled...
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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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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,...
