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Kim Stanley Robinson | Interstellar travel is a religious fantasy
Science fiction is fighting a doctrinal war. Between those who believe that humankind's future is still the stars, and those - like Kim Stanley Robinson - who believe interstellar travel is a fantasy…
Published on 4 years ago
The most powerful scene in scifi cinema Blade Runner’s Tears in Rain
Rick Deckard is a Replicant. And Rick Deckard is also not the hero of Blade Runner...but is the villain. But the obvious questions about Blade Runner are also the least interesting. Empathy is the co…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
The failure of Foundation is a lost opportunity for Apple
Stories that last through the ages aren't just great storytelling, they also serve the power structures of their time. Powerful people have always patronised great stories. The epic poem Beowulf, The…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Thoughts after watching Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE (2021)
If science fiction is a gateway to the psychedelic, then DUNE is a portal to...awakening. Frank Herbert's seminal novel and David Lynch's baroquely weird movie are both powerful works of art on the t…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
The true meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey
It's more than a little ironic that the motion picture widely called the greatest science fiction story ever told was made by an artist who hated science fiction. Stanley Kubrick thought science fict…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
There Is No Antimemetics Division – an interview with Qntm
It's logical that the best science fiction being written today has its origins online and in collaborative forums. There Is No Antimemetics Division began life as part of the SCP Foundation wiki, a c…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
What is science fiction?
Look at a list of the 20th century's most important artistic and cultural movements and you won't find science fiction listed. Why not? We need a better definition of science fiction to help reclaim …
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago