Blade Runner’s Hong Kong (Or, How to Read Those Dull Academic Papers)

It’s so frustrating to run across an academic paper about your favorite comic or movie or TV show. Academics always say one or two smart things and then spend the rest of a 20-page paper gabbling about incomprehensible theories we ordinary people don’t have time for.
It’s kind of cute, really. I picture a tenure-seeking associate [...]

Yay a List! Entertainment Weekly’s Best Sci-Fi From the Past 25 Years

EDIT: 05/14: Uh, yeah, so here’s a link to, uh, the actual EW list. I guess that might help.
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My off-the-cuff guesses that turned out to be right: Aliens, Blade Runner, Children of Men, Firefly
Movie I completely forgot about that was #1: Matrix
Movie I completely forgot about that should have ranked higher than Futurama: [...]

Science Fashion

This month I’ve been obsessed with New York Fashion Week. It’s always fun to see who’s copying sci-fi aesthetics and/or incorporating chunks of rocket hull flashing into their designs — and who admits to doing so. They’re not always the same.
Take, for example, M. John Galliano. He’s got a couple of motifs at work in [...]