Why I Can’t Stop Watching AI Movies (Even Though They’re All the Same)
You know what’s funny? I spend my days testing video games for bugs, which means I’m basically paid to break things that other people spent...
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Why Independent Sci-Fi Films Are Actually Keeping Real Science Fiction Alive
I don’t know about you guys but I’ve spent forty years designing thrusters for satellites and forty years watching Hollywood massacre science fiction movies with...
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When Science Fiction Goes Spectacularly Wrong: A Librarian’s Guide to Beautiful Disasters
After three decades of <a href=”https: //dystopianlens.co.uk/from-dystopia-to-utopia-how-sci-fi-uses-the-future-to-reflect-our-present-day-hopes-and-fears/”>reading science fiction</a> and fifteen years of writing about it, I imagined I had pretty much seen every permutation...
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Why Most Sci-Fi Critics Miss the Point (And What Actually Makes Great Science Fiction)
With forty years of designing real spacecraft and reading science fiction stories imagining futures that I wanted to help create, I’ve developed a few opinions...
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Forty Years of Real Spacecraft Taught Me Why Hollywood Space Travel Makes Me Cringe
It’s been forty years since I began working on real spacecraft propulsion systems and forty years that Hollywood has been twisting physics to suit space-faring...
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Why Hollywood’s Aliens Keep Making the Same Bad Real Estate Decisions
You know what really grinds my gears after forty years in aerospace engineering? How Hollywood aliens never make good tactical decisions. I spend my days...
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Why I Keep Reading Dystopian Sci-Fi Despite Rolling My Eyes at Every New One
Look, I have a confession to make. Whenever someone tells me they just finished yet another dystopian sci-fi novel, I involuntarily grunt and whine something...
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The Tangible Magic: Why I Still Choose Practical Effects Over Perfect CGI
It’s a feeling I get whenever I open up my dad’s paperback copy of Dune and read it. Turns out the same thing is true...
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I Miss Video Stores More Than I Thought I Would: What Streaming Did to My Love Affair with Sci-Fi
I still remember thumbing through the Science Fiction section at Hollywood Video one Friday night when I was seventeen years old. It was 2003, I...
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Why Modern Sci-Fi Movies Are All Flash and No Substance
I spend my days cutting film. Literally cutting strips of film, with scissors. Doing this shit for over twenty years has given me some insight....
