I’m Done With Time Travel Stories (And You Should Be Too)
Time Travel Stories Are Now Junk Food For The Mind – They Taste Great Going Down, But Leave You Feeling Empty. As someone who has...
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Why Romance Keeps Ruining My Favorite Sci-Fi Movies
I have a confession to make, something that’s been bothering me for years as both a fan of science fiction and as someone who teaches...
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The Problem with Tidy Endings in Our Broken Worlds
When I walk into a theatre and see a post-apocalyptic story being told in some new form (whether it’s a blockbuster or a low-budget indie),...
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Why Time Travel Stories Stopped Being Fun (And Started Making Me Think Too Hard)
You know, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this subject – probably too much time as a retiree thinking about fictitious time machines....
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Why I Keep Going Back to Old-School Sci-Fi Instead of Modern CGI Spectacles
I was 12 years-old when I first put on that beat-up VHS tape of Blade Runner and it changed everything for me. It was long...
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Why Every Good Sci-Fi Story Needs Its Freaks (And I’m Not Sorry About It)
There are many questions, that come up in virtually every class I teach science fiction to high schoolers about, including the query: “Do we need...
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When Pixels Could Transport You – The Sci-Fi Games That Built My Imagination
It’s really funny; that Atari startup sound still gets me pumped! I mean, the whole *whoosh* sound echoing through my bedroom in suburban Houston, telling...
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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...
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Teaching Teenagers About Dystopia While Watching Hollywood Create One: My Joker 2 Experience
I went to see Joker 2 last week and, I gotta say, I walked away with the same feelings you’d experience if a high school...
