I have a confession to make: I love Deep Space Nine. I don’t know what I was doing when I first saw Man Trap or Encounter at Farpoint or Wrath of Khan, but I can tell you exactly what I was doing when I saw Emissary. I was 12 years old sitting in my room huddled with …
Tag Archives: SF
What for August 2011
What is Science Fiction? A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. -Theodore Sturgeon Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. -Norman Spinrad The truth is somewhere between these two positions. The …
When update for August 2011
Updated tentative schedule for next month: Aug. 05 the new planet of the apes opens, hope to have a quick review up shortly after… Aug. 06 what – what is science fiction, which came first and why it is important… Aug. 13 Mahabharata – the indian epic that could be the oldest example of science …
The Point, maybe
What is the point? My inner rationalist asks as I try to type out this first post of what should be a very straight forward blog. The premise is simple if not entirely easy to explain: Science Fiction was bad, then good, is bad again (kinda), and will be great again (probably). See, simple. But, how do …
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