Questioning the “survival” narrative
After studying Cold-War, Canadian post-apocalyptic science fiction, I have decided that I don’t want to survive the post-apocalypse.
Or at least, I don’t want to do what it takes to survive. Not according to the tenets of the classic non-solarpunk sci-fi narrative, that is…
Review of The Mountain in the Sea
I recently read Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea and enjoyed it so much, I decide to write a review of it. That’s up at our Patreon right now and available for everyone to read. I’d love it if you’d check it out.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-review-in-93689277
Mashing Solarpunk and Cyberpunk to Wage War Against War in The Creator
The Creator is a moving spectacle. And it felt new. Which is not easy to do, as anyone who has sat down to try to write sci–fi could tell you. Sci–fi is so far beyond the first flush of its youth, unless you're really good, that just about any story you come up with has been written several times before. Despite the clunkier aspects of the plot, whoever wrote The Creator is really good. This sci–fi movie broke ground.