I thought it might be time to start sharing a bit of this universe, where it’s going and who’s taking you there. And I thought it’d be fun to start with character names.
This article contains spoilers for Jurassic Park, The Rise of Skywalker and The Last Emperox. You’ve been warned. There’s a
Lian Hern writes a good tale here, but not a great one. She sets it in a fictional medieval Japan,
Hey, if you haven’t already read Frank Herbert’s Dune, then: a) Shame on you. And b) I’m going to spoil
So the buzz this morning is that a number of people are leaving theatres after seeing The Martian, believing that
Station 11 is a book with a bit of a buzz around it: written by a Canadian expat living in
The man who wrote over 50 books including a couple of Indiana Jones books in the 1990s, and the novelization of the movie The Final Countdown. But if you know him at all, it’s probably because of his most famous character, Steve Austin, and the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man.
Science Fiction set in non-Western cultures can be very interesting, and lately I?ve been lucky to find two that are
David Gerrold*, noted science fiction writer, had an interesting article on his website, 10 Novels that have stayed with me.
Why is it that the portrayal of artificial intelligence in movies and books are contradictory? Almost universally, movies portray AI as adversarial to humans while books show AI benevolently.
