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Literature Versus Television: Survival Across Mediums in The 100
This post contains spoilers. Within six months of the publication of Kass Morgan’s debut novel The 100, the CW Network announced the making of a television…
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Second Helpings of Second Chances: A Review of Brian Lee O’Malley’s Graphic Novel Seconds
Write your mistake Ingest one mushroom Go to sleep Wake anew This is the note that twenty-nine-year-old chef Katie Clay finds in the old chest…
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Dreamers of Tomorrow: A Meditation on Disney’s Tomorrowland
This article contains spoilers. I didn’t understand Tomorrowland. I was confused by the plot, and I wasn’t sure what the crisis was and how it…
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The Women of Star Wars: Part Two
Be sure to check out the first part of this article, which covers Beru Mars, Mon Mothma, and the slave girls on Tatooine. Shmi Skywalker…
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Music of the Spheres: Sci-Fi Soundtracks and the Classical Tradition
There has always been a connection between space and music despite their differences. Long before the space opera genre rose to prominence, space and music…
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The Women of Star Wars: Part One
Space opera is a fascinating sub-genre of speculative fiction—part science fiction, part Western, and all action. Star Wars is undoubtedly the most famous example of…
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More Societal Quirks of Widespread Cryonics and its Contemporary Status
*Scroll down/ click here to read part 1 of this blog* Lois McMaster Bujold’s novel Cryoburn discusses a number of social issues that arise in…
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Politics and Popsicles: The Social Effects of Cryogenic Preservation
Humanity has always been fascinated by the idea of resurrecting the dead. In classics like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, human resurrection moved from the realm of…
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Peace in Their Time “No peace in our time,” growls the war-mongering renegade Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) as he fires on the USS Enterprise.…
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