Tag: science fiction
Read This: Harlan Ellison Is Gone
Harlan Ellison died last week at the age of 84. He was a genuine legend in science fiction, by […]
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Westworld and Ash vs Evil Dead: Good, Bad & Ugly (spoilers)
Last night saw the premieres of two shows I’ve been waiting for: Westworld on HBO and Ash vs Evil […]
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Read This: Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is a strange and affective science fiction novel—classic, understated, and far deeper […]
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Midnight Special: Flawed But Worth It
Midnight Special is one of those movies I wanted so much to love. I liked it—a great deal, actually—and […]
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Read This: Hugh Howey’s Wool
In my experience, the bigger the hype, the bigger the disappointment. And so it is with Hugh Howey’s Wool, […]
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Children of Men: Two Sides to the Story
When it comes to adaptations, I am normally a stickler for the purity of the source material (I’m looking […]
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Read This: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
It is assumed that the androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’s dwindling Earth have their own desires and motivations, and are all but impossible to tell from natural humans without highly specialized empathy tests. In this world, it is not the androids’ ability to be self-aware that defines the difference, but their inability to feel for anyone but themselves. Or so the humans believe.
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Musings on “In the Walls of Eryx”
The popular focus on H.P. Lovecraft has long been on his Cthulhu Mythos. “In the Walls of Eryx” stands apart from that particularly haunted universe. Instead, its universe is a bit closer to home.
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Read This: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a novel heavy with philosophical observations about faith, hope, and human frailty in the long wake of a nuclear apocalypse. The following is what I took away with me.
In broad outline, A Canticle for Leibowitz tracks the progress of humanity over the eighteen centuries following a worldwide nuclear apocalypse.
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