We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handmaid’s Tale and Hunger Games made “dystopia” an entertainment genre, but when Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing in the early 1920s, it was only beginning to dawn on humanity just how bad the future might be. OrContinue reading “The First Dystopia”
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Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie
Terminator is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Arnold’s physique is the star of the film The progressive decay of the Body into the Machine is his co-star With the special effects that animated the Terminator as best supporting actor Or watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbNARASn9Y Imagine if Ron Perlman had passed his audition for Terminator? You can’t.Continue reading “Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie”
HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin
The year is 1920. The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery. As World War 1 burns itself out, men who survived the fighting begin to wonder if a better world, a world without empires and wars, is possible. These working class menContinue reading “HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin”
Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy
It’s Scifi. It’s Romance. It’s Fantasy.
It’s SciMANtasy 😱
Let’s see if we can make Gary an Amazon bestseller so he doesn’t ask for his money back.
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The Last Sysadmin in Sector 7 : a SCIMANTASY novel
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The Ultimate Male Pattern Fantasy
What if the greatest science fiction dream isn’t discovering alien life or saving the human race, but simply being left completely alone in a room to do math?
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is a masterpiece of hard sci-fi engineering, but beneath the astrophage and the orbital mechanics lies a deeply comforting psychological trope. We are looking at the “Male Pattern Fantasy”—the idea that the ultimate hero is just an ordinary, highly competent guy who solves the universe’s problems in absolute, blissful isolation (and somehow looks exactly like Ryan Gosling while doing it).
Whether you find this trope to be a lovely, optimistic vision of human competence or a pathetic retreat from social reality, it is currently dominating modern science fiction.
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”
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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The Avatar franchise is empty spectacle
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The Epstein / Kubrick theory is worse than you think
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