When Science Fiction Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew
You know, after four decades designing spacecraft and reading every piece of hard sci-fi I could get my hands on, I thought I was pretty...
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Been There, Done That: My Four Decades of Reading About the End of Everything
You know, after forty years of watching real spacecraft leave Earth and reading about fictional ones fleeing dying worlds, I’ve come to realize something odd...
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Why I’ve Spent Forty Years Watching Sci-Fi Get the Future Wrong (And Why That’s Actually Perfect)
You know, after four decades of designing actual spacecraft while reading stories about fictional ones, I’ve come to a weird realization—science fiction has never really...
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Why Time Travel Stories Stopped Being Fun (And Started Making Me Think Too Hard)
You know, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately – probably more than a retired guy should be thinking about fictional time machines, but...
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Why Independent Sci-Fi Films Are Actually Keeping Real Science Fiction Alive
You know, after forty years designing satellite propulsion systems and watching the film industry butcher science fiction with increasing enthusiasm, I’ve got to say something...
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How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner Taught This Engineer to Appreciate Science Fiction as Art
I first encountered Blade Runner in 1983, about a year after it hit theaters. My wife had rented it on VHS – this was back...