Science in fiction is either load-bearing or decoration, and readers know which. This tag collects reviews and craft pieces on scientists, laboratories and scientific ideas in film and fiction.
ResearchAbout 47,000 objects are tracked in Earth orbit, and models put the untracked debris in the hundreds of millions. Kessler syndrome is the chain reaction that could make some orbits unusable, and a war would set it off. It's the…
1960sStar Trek: The Original Series rates 6 to 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale, with The Trouble with Tribbles at the top and Spock's Brain as the outlier at 1. Heavily dated, cheaply built, corny in places, and…
2020sMoonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
1980sSomewhere in Time (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Universal halved the budget, the actors' strike stopped Reeve and Seymour promoting it, the critics were brutal, and it ran three weeks. Cable and video then turned…
HistoryAnak Krakatau sent ash to fifteen kilometers on 4 September 2026 and closed Jakarta's main airport. Here is what the 1883 eruption did, what the current monitoring data shows, and what Indonesian geologists say about the risk of another collapse.
Book ReviewsSpace will kill you in dozens of ways, and Paul Sutter's astrophysics guide lays out exactly how each one works. The framing, a travel guide organized by lethality rather than physics, forces the specifics that most space writing skips, from…
Book ReviewsStevenson's most rigorous work documents 225 cases where children's birthmarks matched wounds on the dead people whose lives they described. Forty-nine of those cases had medical records to verify the correlation, which makes them harder to dismiss than memory alone.
Book ReviewsIan Stevenson was a psychiatry department chair at the University of Virginia who spent forty years collecting cases of children who described lives that were not theirs. This book, published in 1966, is where it started: twenty carefully documented case…
Character DevelopmentSettling the solar system is not a distance problem. It is an energy problem, a radiation problem, a gravity problem, and above all a supply chain problem, and the one that decides everything gets the least attention.
Character DevelopmentH. G. Wells sent a traveller thirty million years forward to a beach under a swollen red sun where the last living thing flopped in the surf. That ending was not invention. It was the settled physics of 1895.
Character DevelopmentThe settled answer was a head-on collision in four billion years. In June 2025 a hundred thousand simulations turned that into a coin flip. Almost nothing will physically collide when it happens, because stars are too far apart. What changes…
1990sJan de Bont's 1996 tornado-chase. Foundation for every storm-chasing production since.
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