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The Science Fiction community on Facebook have been arguing for a week straight about the status of Star Wars as science fiction…or not. So here is my ultimate and final answer (almost) to the question.
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It’s Plato’s Cave strapped to your face. At least you could look away from the cave wall. But now Apple will track your eyes and keep showing ads however hard you try to look away. But the irony is even Plato would be excited for the Apple Vision Pro. The duality of Apple in today’s video…
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I’m always surprised how often people are willing to repeat Malthusian statements made by the villains in superhero movies like “human beings are a cancer on the planet” with stopping and thinking…
…wait, didn’t the villain say that?
Thanks to Ty Sowry and Allen Howell for comments and today’s most discussed thread in the Science Fiction community.
Further thoughts on the Malthusian villain and how to avoid sounding like one on the Science Fiction channel…
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Dune is a story about men in rubber suits fighting over who gets to eat the poop of giant sand worms.
There’s a lot of ways telling that story on a cinema screen can go HORRIBLY wrong.
Even after the success of Dune part 1 – which I consider to be a masterpiece – Denis Villeneuve has an uphill fight to repeat the trick with DUNE 2.
As a lesson in narrative craft and storytelling, it’s valuable to think through what those challenges are and how the story will have to be adapted to prevent it being a total…
…DUNETASTROPHE
TRIGGER WARNING – contains criticism of Frank Herbert and the essentially gendered nature of archetypal storytelling.
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The I-Ching is a 5000 year old book of wisdom…which I think qualifies as “ancient”.
Around 17 years ago I made a reading from the I-Ching (by tossing coins to generate one of the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching). The reading had a dramatic effect on my life. In fact it’s fair to say I would’t be leading the life I am today if I hadn’t stuck my nose into this weird old book.
The latest episode of the Science Fiction podcast tells the story of that reading, and delves into why the I-Ching has such a powerful hold on the human imagination for over five millennia.
Warning – it’s possible that none of this is true.
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Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle is a novel about one of the most complex ideas in our world. The way stories shape perception, and the war between narratives. This long-form audio commentary builds on ideas in the video essay Lady Gaga in The Man in the High Castle. Members of the Science Fiction community can listen to the full commentary on the member RSS podcast feed.
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