Legendary’s kaiju franchise is a stuffed plush Cthulhu, filing all the uncomfortable and disquieting edges off in order to sell something more palatable.
The Inevitable Fragility Of Time Loops
A lot of time travel in fiction has an inevitable conclusion. Also, thinking about time travel too hard hurts.
Going Down Some Rabbit Holes With Natural Experiments, Mind Viruses, And Simulated Universes.
Everything is awful, so let’s go down the philosophical rabbit hole and take another look at philosophical zombies, mind viruses, testable hypotheses, and how that relates to the idea that the universe is a simulation.
Three Litanies For Life From Sci-Fi
These are three quotations from science fiction that kept me going. (Spoiler free)
We never imagined our lives.
We did not imagine the future. We sat around tables in the late 1980’s, playing games pretending to be in the far distant future of 2013 (and later, […]
The Topical Changes In Science Fiction And Fantasy Has Nothing To Do WIth Sad Or Rabid Puppies
The change in science fiction and fantasy over the last sixty years little to do with politics, and a lot more to do (ironically) with technology. The current […]