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...


















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...
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...
You know that moment when you’re watching a movie and something impossible happens on screen, but instead of rolling your eyes, you find yourself leaning...
I was thumbing through a battered copy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Lathe of Heaven* in a musty corner of a used bookstore when...
There’s something about watching a massive battleship fire its main guns that makes your chest vibrate, even in a movie theater. I was maybe twelve...
Last week I was replaying Mass Effect for the third time — yes, third, don’t judge me — when something clicked that hadn’t quite registered...
Have you ever sat in a darkened cinema and felt the ground shift beneath your feet? Not literally, of course — though I did once...
Last week, I spent three hours trying to replicate the shoulder detailing from Ridley Scott’s *Blade Runner* on a jacket I picked up from a...
Last summer, I found myself rewatching Super 8 at three in the morning, and something hit me differently than it had before. Maybe it was...
The first time I properly understood what science fiction could do to you was sitting in a cramped Leicester Square cinema in 1982, watching Blade...