What Actually Makes Science Fiction Work (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)
Had this argument with my neighbor Janet last month that’s been bugging me ever since. She was going on about how Star Wars isn’t real...
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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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When Movie Monsters Follow Real Biology Rules – Why ‘Life’ Still Haunts My Engineering Brain
You ever watch a sci-fi movie and find yourself mentally cataloging all the ways the physics don’t work? Yeah, occupational hazard of four decades in...
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Why Most Sci-Fi Critics Miss the Point (And What Actually Makes Great Science Fiction)
After forty years of designing actual spacecraft and reading science fiction that imagined futures I was trying to help build, I’ve got some strong opinions...
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Forty Years of Real Spacecraft Taught Me Why Hollywood Space Travel Makes Me Cringe
I’ve been watching science fiction butcher the physics of space travel for decades now, and honestly? It still gets under my skin every time. After...
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Why Hollywood’s Aliens Keep Making the Same Bad Real Estate Decisions
You know what drives me absolutely nuts after forty years in aerospace? Watching Hollywood aliens make terrible tactical decisions. I mean, here I am –...
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The Science Fiction Fan Theories That Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
You know what happens when you’ve spent forty years building actual spacecraft? You develop this annoying habit of picking apart everything in science fiction. But...
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Five Brilliant Sci-Fi Shows That Got Shortchanged by Networks and Viewers
You know what really gets me fired up? Finding a science fiction show that actually respects its audience’s intelligence, only to watch it get canceled...
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From Square-Jawed Heroes to Digital Prophets: How Sci-Fi Characters Grew Up Alongside Me
You know, I’ve been thinking about this while sorting through some old magazines in my garage – found a stack of Amazing Stories from the...
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Why VHS Was the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Discovery (And Streaming Will Never Match It)
You know, I was cleaning out my garage last week and found a box of old VHS tapes buried under some satellite component manuals from...