What cost for the Hero?
After much thinking about Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, I concluded it was incorrect. The problem is that there are too many exceptions. In his many-step journey, he states that many stories will have these out of Read More
Science Fiction
Review of STAR TREK: AVAILABLE LIGHT
I cannot count the number of STAR TREK novels I have read over the years. Not as many recently as I used to, in fact, no new ones in a few years. It’s the old Read More
Star Trek: Picard
I was a huge Star Trek fan as a kid. Star Trek was the gold standard of science fiction for me for the first 12 or 13 years of my life. (And yeah, my obsession with SF began very early.) In Read More
The Best Philip K. Dick Movie
There have been a number of movies based on Philip K. Dick works. Some of them are pretty great, even– Minority Report (based on “The Minority Report) and of course, Blade Runner (based on Do Read More
Catholic Reads’ Best of 2019
CatholicReads.com released their best of 2019 list, and while no one’s surprised to find John C. Wright on the scifi list, Ann Margaret Lewis’s Warrior of Kizan made the cut, too. I haven’t had the pleasure of Read More
Review: Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid series, Death Stranding) is a bit like the video game version of Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou). The comparison isn’t immediate. Anderson makes awkward dramadies about Read More
Rise of the Skywalker After-Action Review
I didn’t want to review Rise of the Skywalker right after I saw it for a number of reasons. I am, in general, pretty generous to things that I just saw and didn’t absolutely hate, Read More
The State of Star Wars
I’d like to say I have a long history with Star Wars, but frankly, we all do at this point. It’s not even really nerd-culture anymore, but just a cultural touchstone. Maybe it’s fair to Read More
D.C. Fontana, 1939-2019
Dorothy Fontana isn’t quite the household name that Gene Roddenberry is, but if you watch enough pre-2000 scifi, you’ll discover that there’s a subtle and pleasant flavor to certain episodes, here and there. For me, Read More
Superversive Classic: 2-for-1: Lightless and Aurora
This post was originally published Nov. 1, 2016. Recent discoveries have made me a little more adventurous with my audiobooks: Rather than shelling out for an audible subscription and trying to find the longest books Read More