Science fiction

  • 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…

  • Kimi no Na wa

    Have you ever felt like you’ve lost something and won’t ever be able to find it? That’s the feeling I had when I watched Kimi…

  • Equals

    With a wealth of sci-fi movies about the future, the trope of a society which suppresses the emotions of its citizens has become so frequent…

  • The Sins of Professor X (Part Two)

    Hey, did you miss me? Well I missed you! Welcome back to: The Sins of Charles Xavier! (Part Two) Let us jump in right where…

  • The Sins of Professor X (Part One)

    Let me roll off some key features of a comic book character and see if you figure out who I’m talking about: Kindly father figure,…

  • VA-11 Hall-A: Through the Broken Glass

    Playing the bar-tending simulator VA-11 Hall-A was like looking into a shattered mirror. Every time I booted up the game I noticed the way its…

  • The Wrath of Khan

    “How do you feel, Jim?”   Did you ever read a book or watch a movie as a kid and think, “Hot diggity, that was…

  • 10 Strange Facts for Stranger Things

    I love Stranger Things. And apparently, so does everyone else. Despite its popularity, the rampant critical acclaim of Netflix’s Stranger Things was unprecedented upon its…

  • Surviving Humanity in Subnautica

    Like most survival video-games, Subnautica’s main premise is straightforward: you have crash-landed your spaceship on an alien planet. You have naught but your wits and…

  • Bowie Fiction

    There was a time during the twentieth century when the position of the greatest science fiction author was officially split into three. The greatest authors…