Science fiction
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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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Big Hero 6 is Missing some Big Ideas
I would be lying if I said I didn’t come out of Big Hero 6 grinning like a fool. I wanted a cute, fun watch and…
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Grad School or Dragons? Thoughts on Why We Love Speculative Fiction
There is something about lovers of speculative fiction that is different from the lovers of strictly garden-variety fiction. You cannot compare the passions of a…
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How High is Your Number? Analyzing the Sibyl System and Crime Coefficients in Psycho-Pass
This review contains spoilers. In celebration of the airing of the anime Psycho-Pass 2, today we’ll be looking into the idea of the Sibyl System…
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A Life in Film: Stanley Kubrick at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Stanley Kubrick had one of the longest and most fruitful careers in film history. He sought to flesh out the darkest aspects of human existence…
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Winter Wonderland? Gethen and Narnia: the Lands of Perpetual Winter
I recently went on a cruise to Bermuda. It was awful. This was partially due to the incessant swaying of the boat, the boredom that…
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The Walking Dead: No Sanctuary
This review contains spoilers. Walkers. Blood. Family. Walkers have taken over the world. Everyone is infected. Blood is spilled in every episode, whether it be…
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Curiosities Abound: Kurios and Circus as Speculation
Cirque du Soleil never disappoints, but this year—the 30th anniversary of the Montreal-based circus— was absolutely magnificent. The use of steampunk, neo-Victorian aesthetics, and re-imagined clockwork and…
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“Are You Enjoying the Time of EVE ?”
This review contains spoilers. “In the future, probably Japan. ‘Robots’ have long been put into practical use. This is a time not far after…
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