What Hard Science Fiction Is and Why It Matters
The thing about hard science fiction is that it’s a bit like trying to build a working radio from scratch — you need to know...
The thing about hard science fiction is that it’s a bit like trying to build a working radio from scratch — you need to know...
There’s something oddly satisfying about walking into a coffee shop wearing a jacket that looks like it belongs on a space station. Not the bulky,...
Last Tuesday, while rewiring some LED strips in my makeshift workshop, I caught myself thinking about gravity wells and Coriolis effects. Not because I was...
The first time I couldn’t sleep after watching *Annihilation*, I found myself staring at my bedroom wall, wondering if the paint patterns were… different somehow....
I was scrolling through my streaming queue last month when I spotted Sydney Sweeney in *Reality* — not exactly sci-fi, but something about her performance...
Have you ever noticed how many sci-fi stories hinge on one particular character type? I’m talking about the scientist — not just any scientist, but...
I was tinkering with an old servo motor last Tuesday when my flatmate walked in and asked what I was watching on my laptop. “Humans,”...
Standing in a cramped secondhand bookshop in Bath last month, I watched a teenager flip through a pristine copy of *Neuromancer* before putting it back....
Last week, I watched a twelve-year-old explain to her grandmother how she’d redesigned the kitchen layout using principles borrowed from *The Martian*. “See, Grandma, we...
The first time I saw someone cough up black goo on television, I was eating cereal. Probably Cheerios — I remember the spoon stopping halfway...