Raritania

Reading Wells' The Shape of Things to Come from the standpoint of eight decades on, one is, of course, struck by how far the history of...

On first contact I found William Gibson's fiction deeply frustrating. One reason for this was stylistic. (In the pieces with which I fir...

WARNING: MILD SPOILERS AHEAD I rarely expect much from Hollywood comedies anymore, and 2011's Bad Teacher was no exception. Teachers,...

For much of his career H.G. Wells was a founding proponent of what Patrick Parrinder termed "the scientific world-view" --a sense ...

Watching the city of Detroit subjected to a wave of privatization by an unelected emergency manager , I cannot but think of Robocop 2 --not ...

When first getting acquainted with the output of the "how-to-be-a-writer" industry, I read on a number of occasions that it common...

While the television show Continuum has drawn attention for its depiction of North America as a corporatocratic police state in the late tw...

I will start off by saying that this post is not a retrospective about the series. I simply lack the context to provide that, having as I do...

The way we think about the possibility of transcending "the human condition" strongly reflects the way in which we think about hum...

I previously noted the decline of sex as a theme of blockbusters at the American box office , and the disappearance of gratuitous nudity as ...

In the science fiction series Continuum North America in 2077 is under the direct rule of business corporations, which operate a police sta...

Over at Tor.com Chris Lough considers the possibility that HBO's Game of Thrones may come to an end before the series of novels on whi...

Much has been made of the fact that Star Trek: Into Darkness fell well short of Paramount's $100 million-plus projection for the openin...

A quick search of the Internet for the words "gratuitous nudity" turns up innumerable expressions of nostalgia for the '70s an...

I have to admit that I didn't care for John le Carré's novels when I first tried reading them back in high school (in the main, earl...