Category: Sci-Fi
Science fiction literature and movies.
Psychonauts: 1874-83
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The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.
Read This PostAnarcho-Symbolists: 1864-73
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The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.
Read This PostThe YHWH Virus
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Moses was obsessed with microorganisms like yeast… because God is an alien.
Read This PostLord Dunsany
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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the 18th lord of the Irish barony of Dunsany, hunted big game in Africa and played champion chess. As LORD DUNSANY (1878-1957), he also wrote, without revising, a prodigious number […]
Read This PostCordwainer Smith
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Smith explored the inner landscapes opened up by postwar mind science.
Read This PostRobert A. Heinlein
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The biography of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88) firmly places Golden-Age SF on the grand continuum of Americana: the no-nonsense engineer’s mentality of his Kansas City upbringing, his longing for military service (he graduated from the […]
Read This PostThirteen Ways of Looking at Apollo
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1 …Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: […]
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Enlarging the Trek Fanfic Canon
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THE STAR TREK MYTHOS hosts one of the most flourishing bodies of fan fiction since Euripides and the boys got busy on Homer back in the day (indeed, Trekkies ushered in the modern fan fiction […]
Read This PostDouble Exposure (2)
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Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children — wiggle their eyebrows to the beat of Freestyle Express’s “Don’t Stop […]
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