Did my video essay on Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle offend Amazon by calling their tv show “doomed”? Were Donald Trump’s lawyers on the phone for my depiction of him as a Nazi collaborator? Or does the video just feature too many Swastika’s? The real answer is much more quotidian, andContinue reading “Why did YouTube demonetize my book review?”
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The latent spaces of Neuromancer
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Denis Villeneuve’s Neuromancer
A very metamodern Batman
What would a metamodern Batman movie look like? Find out in this audio commentary to accompany the Incel Batman video essay on the Science Fiction channel.
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Incel Batman
Every generation gets The Batman it deserves. 40s Batman was a hardboiled PI. 60s Batman was a hipster for the hippy beats. 80s Batman was a city slicker. And 00s Batman was literally the American Psycho. Now in the 2020s the archetype of The Batman has reached its darkest manifestation literally…did this movie have anyContinue reading “Incel Batman”
The philosophy of Video Games
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The false paradise of the Open World
Science Fiction Season 2 The season break is over, Science Fiction returns this weekend with a major new video essay on Star Citizen, the false paradise of the Open World, and the meaning crisis.
Answering some of the repeat objections to my Three Body Problem video
Answering some of the repeat objections to my Three Body Problem video This Is Clickbait – there’s a huge amount of uncritical coverage of 3BP, very few people have taken the time to question the pro-authoritarian stance of the book. I think the gushing essays and videos saying “this is how hard SF should be”Continue reading “Answering some of the repeat objections to my Three Body Problem video”
The meaning of US in The Last of Us
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The US in The Last of Us
Us. My “Writing Hacks” course includes 11 “hacks” or heuristics to improve your writing. 3 of these heuristics are in the 4 word title The Last of Us. – small words pack a punch – load meaning into the last word of a sentence – pronouns are powerful Us. A pronoun at the end ofContinue reading “The US in The Last of Us”
The best Scifi & Fantasy storytelling – 2022 edition
2022 has been an AMAZING year for scifi & fantasy storytelling.
But mid-way through the year looked like a disaster.
Streaming television has delivered both the best and the worst of scifi and fantasy this year. The struggle to dominate streaming tv saw literally BILLIONS of $$$$ spent on scifi shows. But while much of that money was wasted on disasters like Fake Tolkien, it was smaller shows that crept in and stole our hearts and minds.
My review of the year lists my top 22 SFF stories…of 2022…and also my 7 worst, and the themes driving our storytelling at this moment in time.
And a MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you on this journey, it’s a great time to be a scifi fan, and I’m honored so many of you are listening to the Science Fiction podcast and participating in this community.
Thank you.
00:00 22 best (and 7 worst) of 2022
04:36 Big trouble for the little novel – 22 to 17
16:09 Enter the Unreal – 16 to 9
30:47 The 7 worst
41:57 Mythopathos – 8 to 1
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