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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Those Weird 80s Sci-Fi Shows That Rewired My Brain Before I Knew What Good TV Was
Look, I need to be honest about something that’s been bugging me for years. Everyone talks about how great modern sci-fi television is, and yeah,...
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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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Why Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem Actually Makes Cosmic Horror Accessible
I’ve been recommending Liu Cixin’s *Three-Body Problem* to hesitant sci-fi readers for about a decade now, and I’ve learned something interesting: the people who bounce...
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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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Hidden Sci-Fi Gems That’ll Make You Question Why Nobody’s Talking About Them
You know that moment when you discover something amazing and immediately want to grab everyone by the shoulders and ask why they didn’t tell you...
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The Sci-Fi Books That Broke My Brain (And Maybe Predicted Everything)
So there’s this moment that happens sometimes when you’re reading — like, you’re just sitting there turning pages and then WHAM, the book basically reprograms...
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The Sci-Fi Writers Who Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About the Genre
Three weeks ago, I did something I haven’t done in probably fifteen years — I walked into Powell’s Books and headed straight for the “New...
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When Dystopian Movies Stop Feeling Like Fiction and Start Feeling Like Previews
So there I was last Tuesday night, couldn’t sleep again, ended up putting on *Children of Men* for probably the tenth time this year. Something...
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When Science Fiction Goes Spectacularly Wrong: A Librarian’s Guide to Beautiful Disasters
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...
