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...
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Brave New World Review Huxleys Pleasure Dystopia Got Closer Than Orwell
Brave New World Review: Huxley Wins the Dystopian Novel before Either of You Were Born Listen. We need to talk. Max says 1984 is the...
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Why Hollywood’s Aliens Keep Making the Same Bad Real Estate Decisions
You know what really grinds my gears after forty years in aerospace engineering? How Hollywood aliens never make good tactical decisions. I spend my days...
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Hyperion Review The Canterbury Tales In Space And It Actually Works
# Hyperion is an amazing novel that successfully adapts The Canterbury Tales for space and it really works. Hyperion REVIEW Who’s Reviewing: Zara is writing...
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Why I Keep Reading Dystopian Sci-Fi Despite Rolling My Eyes at Every New One
Look, I have a confession to make. Whenever someone tells me they just finished yet another dystopian sci-fi novel, I involuntarily grunt and whine something...
