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Stephanie Shimerdla
Once thought the bane of fine literature, science fiction has slowly seeped into the collective consciousness of the world, thanks in part to the success movies and videogames in the genre has enjoyed....
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Colossal Tackles Issues Large and Small
A quite peculiar movie was recently released from writer director Nacho Vigalondo, and even after you watch it — and you should — you may be at a loss to describe the experience. It’s most certainly a...
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Anna Christenson
Fantasy has found many artistic settings over the years, from the classical high fantasy of faraway kingdoms, historical fantasy taking slight liberties with common knowledge, and even magic-infused...
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The Teen Titans’ Television Transformation
The Teen Titans have been around in comics and animation for over 50 years, but they’ve just made the jump to live action with the new DC Universe series Titans. If you’ve been following the group of...
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Alita’s Terrifying Transhumanism
The global box office returns have spoken, and Alita: Battle Angel is a resounding success. Yet, some were disturbed by certain inhuman aspects of Alita and her enhanced enemies. Perhaps some...
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Post-Blade Runner Science Fiction Standouts
A short while ago, The AV Club celebrated the release of Blade Runner 2049 with a list of The 35 best science-fiction movies since Blade Runner. I’ve added The Host to my must-see list, and will try...
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Winona Nelson
The the interplay of chaos and order is responsible for everything you’ve ever known or experienced, from the creation of the universe to your most recent dream. Some might consider these forces at...
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Star Trek: Picard’s Problematic Foundations
I’ve been dreading Star Trek: Picard since I first heard it was in the works. I feared it would be a vanity project for a less than gracious actor focusing exclusively on the least engaging member the...
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Abigail Larson
The 1800’s Romanticism has given us many great works of literature, but more than merely this, it helped to instill a deep and abiding appreciation of the union of scientific principles and the...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks, the Cure for Kelvin
As the first fantastic season of Star Trek: Lower Decks comes to a close, it should be clear to any self-respecting Trek fan that it is all things good and pure from Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction...
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Cosmic Sin: Truth in Advertising
Many talented people worked to make Cosmic Sin a reality, and almost none of them should be blamed for the smoldering wreckage that it most definitely is. The actors had a job and did it, the visual...
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Wah Chang
The world of Star Trek is a troubled, but ultimately utopian world of interspecies collaboration and peace, a stark counterpoint to the tumultuous 1960’s in which it was born. Thankfully, Paramount’s...
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