Why Animation Makes Better Sci-Fi Than Live Action (And My Students Finally Get It)
You know what’s weird? Last Tuesday I was setting up our classroom’s ancient projector—the thing sounds like a dying vacuum cleaner when it starts up—and...
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Why Every Sci-Fi Weapon Tells a Story About Power (And What We’re Afraid Of)
You know what’s weird? I was at a sci-fi convention three years ago – one of those smaller ones in South Jersey where they actually...
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When Fiction Feels Too Much Like Engineering Specs: Dystopian Novels That Hit Different After 40 Years in Aerospace
I was tinkering with some old satellite telemetry data last week when a news alert popped up on my tablet about facial recognition software being...
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Why 80s Sci-Fi Movies Still Hit Different Than Today’s Blockbusters
There’s this scene in Videodrome where James Woods’ hand literally develops a VHS slot, and every time I watch it – which is probably more...
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What the Hugo Awards Actually Tell Us About Where Sci-Fi Is Going (And Why I Care)
So I was procrastinating on a bug report last Tuesday night—you know how it is, sometimes you just can’t face writing “player can clip through...
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When Anime Gets Weird Enough to Change Everything: The Sci-Fi Shows That Made Me Rethink What Animation Could Do
God, I love it when a story completely blindsides you. Like, you think you know what you’re getting into, and then something shifts and suddenly...
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The Netflix Sci-Fi Shows That Made Me Forget I’m a Responsible Adult
You know that moment when you’re three episodes deep into some sci-fi series at 2 AM and you’re suddenly having an existential crisis about whether...
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When Movies Stopped Being Movies and Started Being Doorways to Other Worlds
The first time I showed *2001: A Space Odyssey* to my AP English class, half the students fell asleep during the ape sequence. Can’t blame...
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Teaching Star Wars Made Me Realize It’s Not Really Science Fiction (And That’s Okay)
So there I was last Tuesday, trying to convince my AP students that Fahrenheit 451 deserves a spot on their summer reading list, when Marcus...
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When Movie Monsters Follow Real Biology Rules – Why ‘Life’ Still Haunts My Engineering Brain
You ever watch a <a href=”https://dystopianlens.co.uk/when-sci-fi-got-it-right-how-films-and-tv-shows-nailed-realistic-space-travel/”><a href=”https://dystopianlens.co.uk/when-sci-fi-got-it-right-how-films-and-tv-shows-nailed-realistic-space-travel/”>sci-fi movie</a></a> and find yourself mentally cataloging all the ways the physics don’t work? Yeah, occupational hazard of four...
