Science fiction
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Religion as Technology in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
This piece contains spoilers. Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood poses a disturbing conflict between humans and the Earth, exploring an issue that is…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep…or of a Blade Runner?
Upon receiving the syllabus for a course, I quickly scanned the book list and noticed one particular book: Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of…
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Fantastic Love in The World of Makoto Shinkai
Although Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has long been representative of the quality of the Japanese animation film industry, a rising star has been making waves…
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Rising Consciousness: The Trend of Conscious Artificial Intelligence in Sci-Fi Movies
The movie industry has always been frenetic about anticipating the future. The Star Wars and Star Trek series are still popular in film geek’s fandom…
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Hack the World with the Touch of a Button: A Critique of Watch Dogs
Have you ever wanted to change the traffic lights from red to green whenever you reached an intersection? Do you ever feel low on cash…
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Lost in Translation: A Painfully Honest Review of Interstellar
(Image from avforums.com) I am, quite obviously, not Neil deGrasse Tyson or Chris Hadfield. I’m not a physical sciences major, or even a huge sci-fi…
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The One Nerd to Rule Them All : Why The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is Definitely Worth Your Time
Too rarely do we find a story that so unabashedly loves the speculative genres as The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. As a jaded…
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Believing Make-Believe: an Interview with GoT Visual Effects Artist Neil Safeer Ghaznavi
My enthusiasm for speculative fiction is very much rooted in its ability to make impossible things believable. For someone like me, to conjure the fantastical…
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