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”
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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”
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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Plur1bus : what’s it all about?
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The 7 scifi books that ALMOST made me a believer
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The Alien franchise is finally dead
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Frankenstein : the first myth for the age of science
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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”
The greatest 226 minutes in scifi television
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