Blade Runner 2049 Review The Sequel Nobody Believed Could Work
Blade Runner 2049 Review: A Sequel We Didn’t Think Could Exist Hi folks! It’s Kathleen here again, and I just have to take a moment...
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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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Ex Machina Review The AI Thriller That Gets More Unsettling Every Year
Ex Machina Review: This AI Thriller Is More Disturbing Every Year Ok, full disclosure: When I first screened this movie for my Year 12 Film...
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Arrival Review The First Contact Film That Made You Think Instead Of Shoot
Arrival Review: The First Contact Movie That Made You Think Instead Of Shoot Here’s the thing though – when I think of first contact movies,...
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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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The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Review Douglas Adams Proved Sci Fi Could Be Properly Funny
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Review: Douglas Adams Proved Sci-Fi Could Be Properly Funny It must have been around 1983 when I first read...
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Snow Crash Review Neal Stephensons Chaotic Cyberpunk Satire Predicted The Metaverse
Snow Crash first hit my desk in 1992, just as I was starting to get sick of reading dreary cyberpunk novels trying to replicate Neuromancer....
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Childhoods End Review Arthur C Clarkes Quietly Devastating Alien Story
Childhood’s End Review: Clarke’s Most Profound Work Hi. I’m Zara and I’m here to end your debate about whether Childhood’s End should have been on...
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The Forever War Review Joe Haldemans Vietnam In Space Still Hits Hard
Hi Dylan here. Today I want to talk about why Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War still matters almost fifty years after its original publication. Max...
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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...
