Best Sci Fi Books Ranked: The Novels That Built The Genre From The Ground Up
Quinn kicked things off (as always) by arguing that Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy belongs on the list based solely on cultural impact. “Fourteen million...
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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....
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The Science Fiction Fan Theories That Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
What happens when you’ve spent <a href=”https://dystopianlens.co.uk/from-dystopia-to-utopia-how-sci-fi-uses-the-future-to-reflect-our-present-day-hopes-and-fears/”>forty years</a> designing real spacecraft? You find yourself analysing and deconstructing every piece of science fiction you come across....
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Five Brilliant Sci-Fi Shows That Got Shortchanged by Networks and Viewers
Sci-Fi Says No Presents My Favorite Science Fiction Shows that Got Screwed Over by Networks Ask me what pisses me off about modern sci-fi and...
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From Square-Jawed Heroes to Digital Prophets: How Sci-Fi Characters Grew Up Alongside Me
Sorting through boxes in the garage recently, I unearthed a stash of old Amazing Stories magazines dating back to the 1970s. Amazing Stories, for any...
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Why We Keep Coming Back to Rain-Soaked Streets and Neon Dreams
Look, I know what you movie folks think when I say I’m “into cyberpunk” right now. You’ll eye-roll me when I bring up Blade Runner...
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When Sci-Fi Stopped Being Fiction and Started Being My Job Training
Something strange happened to me recently. I’ve been working in game testing for a while now, and I find myself playing the games I grew...
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Why VHS Was the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Discovery (And Streaming Will Never Match It)
Last week I was cleaning out my garage, and I stumbled on a box of old VHS tapes I’d forgotten about under a stack of...
