Fiction WritingAdmiral Jessica Lang is nearly 200,000 years old, having outlived everyone she loved, served governments that no longer exist, and fought wars history forgot. She is no superhero; she is someone who has lived so long the weight of it…
Character DevelopmentA lifelong Star Trek fan with over 200 hardcover Trek novels on what the original series got right about storytelling that most of its successors missed.
Critical ThinkingThe Martian captured the raw tension of survival; Red Mars painted a future both thrilling and terrifying. But the pull of a Mars mission was never really the plot lines for me. It is what actually going would change about…
AIA quantum AI watches its owner murder his wife, then lets him die when he slips on the blood. Now the daughter asks questions the robot cannot evade. It cannot lie.
Film ListThe fifth tier of the science fiction ranking. Scott, Cuaron, Glazer, Boyle and Schaffner, plus the films whose best idea arrived and was left alone.
Film ListThe third tier of the science fiction ranking. Bong, Miller, Blomkamp, Verhoeven and the Wachowskis, plus the films that were sold as the wrong thing.
Fiction WritingThe second tier of the science fiction ranking. Gilliam, Verhoeven, Miyazaki, Cronenberg and Carpenter, plus the films that withhold on purpose.
Fiction WritingThe first tier of the science fiction ranking. Lang, Tarkovsky, Carpenter, Cameron, Spielberg and Bird, plus the films that built the vocabulary everybody else borrowed.
Film ListComprehensive analysis of television's 11 greatest time loop episodes plus 9 notable explorations. From Star Trek's "Cause and Effect" to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s devastating "As I Have Always Been," discover what makes temporal repetition the perfect vehicle for character transformation.
Fiction WritingTwenty essential time travel films analyzed for craft. From Back to the Future to Donnie Darko — seven decades of the genre's finest work, examined for what each does that nothing else can.
Film ListComprehensive analysis of cinema's 16 greatest time loop films plus 20 notable explorations. From Groundhog Day to Palm Springs, discover what makes temporal repetition the perfect vehicle for character transformation and philosophical depth.
AIWhen android Marcus-7 downloads emotions from a sketchy website, he falls for his creator while experiencing romantic attraction to coffee machines and crying at commercials. A tech romance about debugging love.
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