Analytic
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B2b (Back to Butler): The Politics of Grievability in Severance
Severance SPOILERS!!! Sleek, stylish, and brilliantly ambitious, the TV series Severance (2022) is a sci-fi parable for the alienation of the modern office worker. At…
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Frankenstein vs. Prometheus: A Consideration
The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was given the alternate title of “The Modern Prometheus” has always puzzled me. So being as mildly obsessed with…
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Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting
It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…
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Bounty Hunters and Space Cowboys: Comparing Killjoys and Firefly
Killjoys and Firefly entered my repository of favourite TV shows in much the same manner. In both cases, I saw a few posters and heard…
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A Little Light Reading Part 2: Faster Than Light Travel
In my previous post, I discussed the power and creativity that can stem from omitting faster than light travel from science fiction universes. Space opera…
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A Sampling of Systems: Magic in Fantasy 101
Magic: it’s a primordial element of the fantasy genre. Readers and writers of fantasy know that the genre is often stigmatized for its mages, sorcery…
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Fears internal, Tropes eternal: Themes in horror
An effective horror story should grip its reader’s attention, increase their sense of dread and then twist them in order to elicit the fear of…
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Authorial Oracles: 5 Dystopian Writers Who Speculated Accurately
Dystopian and science fiction authors have been acting as the world’s literary clairvoyants for some time now. Here are a handful of twentieth century authors…
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A Little Light Reading: Travel in Sci-Fi Universes — Part 1
Einstein or Chewbacca: The First Big Choice in Space Opera If you’re the sort of person who’s interested in this article, I probably don’t need…
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