So let’s talk more about utopia. Thomas More’s Utopia 🤣 Utopia is a very clever pun coined by More. It is a play on the Greek “eutopia” or good place, with the U making the meaning no place. An imaginary good place. And “topia” is also the root of “topic”, the word for an ideaContinue reading “One man’s utopia…”
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The mythic king England needed. To steal.
An interesting thing about the Arthurian mythos is that there is no canonical version. Indeed there’s no especially good King Arthur. Arthur has stayed in existence more for political than literary reasons. England and Britain have a very scrappy history. The Celts were hundreds of tribes that didn’t know they were Celts until centuries afterContinue reading “The mythic king England needed. To steal.”
Why did science fiction die?
So, why did science fiction die? Science fiction’s “golden age” is really the late 1800s and early 1900s when it is a powerful creative and political force. Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward published in 1888 almost sparked a social revolution in the United States. When people compared what their lives could be in a better future,Continue reading “Why did science fiction die?”
A thought on Le Guin
I don’t know how science fiction gained the reputation of being written by and for men. Actually…wait…no…I do. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley the “mother” of science fiction is, in the early 1800s, actually about midway in the early history of the science fiction novel. Between the late 1600s and Margaret Cavendish’ Blazing World to the earlyContinue reading “A thought on Le Guin”
How the Matrix reclaimed the Red Pill
The best way to understand the broken, crazed, indulgent filmography of the Wachowski’s is as a quest to make the Matrix movie the Matrix would never make. Time. Is money. And in the cold unfeeling eyes of Hollywood a “movie” is just a business strategy to convert two hours of your time into shareholder value.Continue reading “How the Matrix reclaimed the Red Pill”
Jupiter Ascending SCRIPT PREVIEW
So. Why. WHY. Have I written a 5000 word script about the Wachowski’s worst movie? It’s not to make fun of Mila Kunis non-acting, although rest assured, fun is made. Or Sean Bean cashing a big cheque for what is, even for him, an epicly lazy performance. Or the brown sludge CGI that is 78%Continue reading “Jupiter Ascending SCRIPT PREVIEW”
Star Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.
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America forgot that Judge Dredd is a *satire* of fascism
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They want to make DUNE real
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Where did the future go?
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Why are right-wing grifters all like Batman villains?
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Ursula K Le Guin banned in Russia
Ursula K. Le Guin has always been the GOAT of speculative fiction, the kind of writer who rewired how we think about society. But as of late 2025, she’s achieved a new level of clout: getting personally targeted by the FSB. Vladimir Putin just did the one thing guaranteed to make a 1969 sci-fi cultContinue reading “Ursula K Le Guin banned in Russia”
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