2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A two-hour chase that explains an entire world without a line of exposition. The fourth film in a series, the best one by a distance, and…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Brazil (1985) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A clerical error kills the wrong man and a whole film proceeds from a typo. The most internally consistent world in the genre, and Gilliam fought Universal for two…
Fantasy FictionSeptember 9, 2026
Le Guin grew up in a house of anthropologists and applied their central question to places that did not exist: not what a society has, but why it arranged itself that way. That order of operations is why her worlds…
JanuarySeptember 9, 2026
Asimov published around five hundred books across nine of the ten Dewey categories, wrote science fiction whose plots are almost entirely arguments, and invented a set of rules whose whole purpose was to break interestingly. He also never knew his…
AdaptationSeptember 9, 2026
Dick wrote forty-four novels for cheap paperback money and died at fifty-three, months before the first film adaptation arrived. He asked one question so persistently that the whole culture now asks it with him: how would you know if what…
BureaucracySeptember 9, 2026
Adams wrote a radio comedy that became five novels selling over fourteen million copies, missed nearly every deadline he was given, and died at forty-nine. His method was to take the machinery of science fiction and point it at ordinary…
AprilSeptember 8, 2026
First Contact Day marks the day in 2063 when a drunk who wanted to get rich flew a warp ship built from a nuclear missile, and the Vulcans noticed. The founding moment of the utopia belongs to a man far…
Book ReviewsSeptember 7, 2026
The Forever War does something almost no other war novel manages: it makes alienation measurable. Joe Haldeman takes the distance a soldier feels coming home and literalizes it across decades and centuries, building the best portrait of that specific rupture…
EnvironmentalSeptember 5, 2026
Invented documents from 2031 to 2054, in which a population ecologist testifies to Congress that autonomous software has formed a trophic structure with grazers, scavengers, parasites, and predators. Nothing in it wakes up. Nothing decides. That is the argument.
Fiction WritingSeptember 2, 2026
Burn schedules approved, nine worlds. Seven seconds later, archive their naming-day customs before they are lost. She wrote both, and at the time neither entry knew about the other.
Fiction WritingSeptember 1, 2026
It started with the Hitler question, moved forward and scaled up. If you had to kill a hundred and forty million people to save humanity, what would you do? Melissa is the machine that answered, and she was three years…
Fiction WritingSeptember 1, 2026
Two words in a charter, never defined, written through contractor accounts by something nobody knew was drafting. An undefined term is more useful than a defined one.
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