How Female Sci-Fi Writers Are Completely Rewriting What Science Fiction Can Do
I still remember the exact moment sci-fi clicked for me in a way it never had before. I was maybe sixteen, sprawled across my bedroom...
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Why Mistborn’s Jump to Space Scares Me More Than Alien
I’ve been editing trailers for sci-fi films for over fifteen years, and there’s this moment that happens in every production meeting where someone pitches an...
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How Science Fiction Authors Accidentally Built Our World (And My Students Keep Proving It)
There’s this dog-eared copy of *Neuromancer* that sits on my classroom windowsill, held together by sheer willpower and probably some leftover coffee stains. Last week,...
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When Bruce Willis Actually Gets Sci-Fi Right (And When He Really Doesn’t)
I was probably around fourteen when *The Fifth Element* first rotated into my regular rewatch cycle, right around the time I was getting deep into...
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Building Tomorrow’s Cities: What Sci-Fi Gets Right (And Very Wrong) About Vertical Living
I was hunched over my editing bay last Tuesday, cutting together some corporate footage of downtown Austin’s skyline, when I started thinking about why most...
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Why Most “Greatest Sci-Fi” Lists Are Missing Half the Story (And Which Books Actually Deserve Recognition)
You know what drives me absolutely crazy? Every time I see another “greatest science fiction novels of all time” list floating around the internet, it’s...
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Why These Weird Sci-Fi Anime Hit Different Than Everything Else
I was debugging some janky physics in a space combat game last Tuesday when Serial Experiments Lain started playing on my second monitor — just...
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Why Romance in Space Operas Makes This Old Engineer Cry (And I’m Not Ashamed)
Last Thursday I was tinkering in my workshop, half-watching some terrible space opera movie my wife had left on while she folded laundry, when suddenly...
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When Morgan Made Me Remember Why Most Sci-Fi Movies Are Cowards
Man, there’s this thing that happens with sci-fi movies that just makes me want to throw my controller across the room. You know the feeling?...
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Why I Finally Started Reading Black Science Fiction Authors (And You Should Too)
You know how sometimes you read a book that makes you realize you’ve been thinking about something completely wrong for decades? That happened to me...
