Science Fiction & Superheroes
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PLEASE NOTE – There may be spoilers in this post. Don’t read if this concerns you. MePri’s Otakon panel, “Godzilla: Just A Giant Lizard?” gave me a new perspective on Godzilla. Their presentation suggested that the different portrayals of Godzilla in its movies were a barometer of society’s acceptance of nuclear energy. From a fearful
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I remember I bought The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy boxset because my son had asked to read the book. He didn’t end up finishing, so it sat on our bookcase for some time before a series of random praises from unrelated internet searches made me question why I didn’t read it in high
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS! I started House of M in March but wasn’t inspired to finish it until watching the X-Men panel on the Comic-Con YouTube channel. The panelists spoke about the newly concluded “Hellfire Gala,” which leads into the “Trial of Magneto.” Poor Magneto seems to be the scapegoat
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CAUTION SPOILERS! Kara at Zlatko’s, Connor in the police archives, and Markus in Jericho. All of my androids are dead. They never got to the camps or did they pacify the police with a song. This past July, Sony Playstation Plus offered Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human as a “free” download (“Free” in quotes because
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WARNING SPOILERS FOR BOTH MIRROR IN THE SKY AND KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NEVER LET ME GO! I didn’t need Aditi Khorana’s Mirror in the Sky to be the familiar science fiction story with alien Doppelganger cyborgs speaking pages from a high school Physics textbooks. The doses of physics she provided helped clarify the existence of the
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The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILERS! I think the problem is I read the prequel immediately after reading the first book, Who Fears Death? While it is an interesting book that could have potentially explored the ethics of scientific/medical research and discovery, it doesn’t. The question posed but never discussed. The
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