Science fiction
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Anybody Can Be a Hero
“Heroes never die!” – Mercy Released in May 2016 by Blizzard Entertainment, Overwatch is a team-based first-person shooter (FPS) that has quickly taken centre-stage in…
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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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The Ship Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: A Review of Passengers
This review contains spoilers! In the realm of inferior movies there is a special category reserved for movies that are unsatisfactory despite their captivating and…
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Arrival – A Case of Déjà vu
Walking into Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, I only knew a little about the movie. I knew that it was based…
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Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs in Film: Here to Help, or Out to Kill?
It’s a normal day. You’re walking down Queen Street West and pass a stranger. You smile. They don’t smile back. And then you say to…
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Of Imagination and Fantasy: The Importance of Childhood and a Look at Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
For many readers, it seems that speculative fiction (once you figure out what it means) conjures up either thoughts of the future or the ancient…
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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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Antiquity to Dystopia: Genre-Crossing Symbolism in Lang’s Metropolis
Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic, Metropolis, depicts a dystopian future in which an oppressed class of workers is forced to live underground by the wealthy elite…
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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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