Why I Keep Falling for the Friendships Nobody Talks About in Sci-Fi
You know what gets me every time I’m watching sci-fi with my students or just binge-watching at home on a Friday night? It’s never the...


















You know what gets me every time I’m watching sci-fi with my students or just binge-watching at home on a Friday night? It’s never the...
I’ve got this beaten-up VHS copy of The Terminator that I grabbed from a garage sale maybe ten years ago. The case is cracked, the...
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...
I’ve got a confession to make – I’m that teacher who plays Blade Runner‘s opening theme while students walk into class, and honestly? They love...
You know what pisses me off? Every single artificial intelligence in science fiction is either humanity’s digital messiah or our chrome-plated executioner. I’ve been binge-watching...
You know, after thirty years of reading science fiction and about fifteen years writing about it, I thought I’d seen every possible way the genre...
You know that feeling when you walk into a room and something’s just… wrong? Maybe the shadows fall at odd angles, or there’s a sound...
You know that moment when you’re watching a sci-fi film and something just feels *wrong* about what the characters are wearing? Maybe it’s too clean,...
Last Tuesday, I was tinkering with a makeshift holographic projector in my garage (don’t ask – it involved three old smartphones and way too much...
The first time I saw someone cough up black goo on television, I was eating cereal. Probably Cheerios — I remember the spoon stopping halfway...