Which future from the past haunts your now? If you’re alive and watching this in 2026 you are likely haunted by one of two great stories of the future. The future of the space rocket, the warp drive, the starship. Human technology will take us to the stars, to strange new worlds, to meet theContinue reading “Hauntology”
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Why do Leftists always lose? A (partial) defense of Contrapoints
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You don’t understand science fiction
There is a single narrative technique that connects almost every multi-billion dollar science fiction franchise ever made. It is the invisible engine powering the most successful stories of the last century. And yet, if you ask ten working Hollywood screenwriters what it is, nine of them will give you a blank stare—and the tenth willContinue reading “You don’t understand science fiction”
The First Dystopia
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”
They want to make DUNE real
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Where did the future go?
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Science fiction’s most terrifying prediction
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Plur1bus : what’s it all about?
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The 7 scifi books that ALMOST made me a believer
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Is a World State inevitable? Damien Walter vs Feral Historian
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Psychohistory : Isaac Asimov’s greatest idea
We are in a crisis… …of crises. We are in a crisis of geopolitics as we move from a unipolar world of one global hegemon to a multipolar world of competing powers. We are in a crisis of economics as our elites hoard more and more wealth, immiserating the working and middle classes. We areContinue reading “Psychohistory : Isaac Asimov’s greatest idea”
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