Why These Recent Sci-Fi Films Actually Matter (And I’m Not Just Being Pretentious)
I was debugging the same stupid UI glitch for the fourth hour straight last Tuesday when my roommate cranked up *Dune: Part Two* in the...
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Why I Still Hunt Down Physical Sci-Fi Magazines (And You Should Too)
So there I was last weekend, elbow-deep in my closet trying to find that ancient extension cord, when I knocked over this precarious stack of...
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When Science Fiction Action Actually Makes You Think (Instead of Just Blowing Things Up)
There I was last Tuesday night, sitting in my reading chair at nearly 3 AM after another viewing of *Edge of Tomorrow*, and I couldn’t...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Just Won’t Die (And Most Does)
I was reorganizing my game collection last week — trying to make room for the new Mass Effect remaster because apparently I need to own...
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Why These Upcoming Sci-Fi Films Have This Old Engineer Actually Excited
I’ve been prowling around online film forums again, hitting refresh like some kind of desperate trailer addict. My wife thinks it’s ridiculous — a 68-year-old...
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Why Some Sci-Fi Books Escape the Genre Ghetto (And Most Don’t)
Last weekend I was killing time in this cluttered used bookstore on South Lamar when I caught two kids, maybe sixteen or seventeen, having this...
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Why 90s Sci-Fi Still Kicks Ass (And Modern Shows Don’t)
So I’m digging through this pile of old DVDs the other day – yeah, physical media, sue me – and I pull out this battered...
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Why Science Fiction Actually Gets Me Through Teaching Teenagers About Life
You know that moment in class when a kid who hasn’t spoken all semester suddenly raises their hand during a discussion of *The Hunger Games*...
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When YA Sci-Fi Gets It Right: Books That Actually Make Kids Think
Last Tuesday I’m reshelving returns when this kid, maybe fourteen, comes up to the desk absolutely clutching *The Giver* like her life depends on it....
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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...