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If Dinosaurs Walked the Earth… You’d Be Riding One
What do you think of when you imagine a utopia? How about a dystopia? If you had trouble with the first, but The Hunger Games…
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More than Dinosaurs: The Humans of Jurassic World
This post contains spoilers. Eager as ever, I arrived at the theater for Jurassic World just in time and sat through the previews, which is…
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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…
