Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Play
I’m cooking up a throughput linkorama for next week. But for now, here’s some videos I’ve dropped recently.
Tagged: science fiction
Video Throughput: The Eye of Aldhani and May the Fourth Be With You
I take a look back at Disney+’s spectacular Andor series and the episode The Eye. Would something like the Eye of Aldhani be possible?
Video Throughput: Serenity and Firefly
In this week’s video, I react to the 2005 film Serenity and the Firefly series that preceded it. What did it get right? What did it get wrong?
Video Throughput: Science Fiction From Fritz Lang to the Daniels
Everything Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar for Best Picture, arguably the first science fiction film to do so. How have science fiction movies fared at the Oscars over the years? Are we...
Throughput Video: Andrew and Mike Talk SciFi Captains
In today’s episode, I call in some help in ranking starship captains, generals and other sci-fi leaders. What makes a great leader? What makes a poor one? What are the most compelling portrayals in sci-fi?
Friday Throughput: Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
In this video, from science fiction to real time history of what DART did, why it matters, what the future of space defense might look like
Video Throughput: 21 Spaceships And The Rule Of Cool
In this video, I rank 21 spaceships by not only scientific accuracy but how closely they adhere to the Rule of Cool.
Mandalorian II: The Mandalorianing (Spoilers)
Eventually, The Mandalorian may get to a bigger conflict and heavier stakes, but it’s taking its time, earning those increased stakes.
Original Fiction: Highest Noon By Michael Siegel
Original Fiction from Michael Siegel: “Kate made one last check, nodded to Samson and then slowly undid the seals on her helmet…”
Thursday Throughput: Arrakis, New Caprica, and Us
In the decades to come, we’re going to learn a lot about alien planets. It would not surprise me at all if we found ones like New Caprica or Arrakis.
Short Story: Back to School
School had been out for a long time; longer than Jack could remember. He wasn’t sure why they’d had to stay away. But he was excited to be going back.
Tenshot: The Three Body Problem Trilogy
I recently read this trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu
“Annihilation” Movie Review
One of the best films of the first half of the year, a sci-fi/horror mashup, is now available on streaming and disc.
An Economist Nitpicks Sci-Fi: Foundation and Chaos
In which an economist looks at one of the seminal science fiction works of the 20th Century.
Films That Could Have Been
There are far too many science fiction films that left us asking: what happened? Thankfully, three recent documentaries get to the bottom of it.
Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
In a sense, it is the perfect speculative fiction novel, even as it pays unspoken homage to a similarly-themed book by very different authors from thirty-eight years ago.
Book Review: Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Picking a book at random from the “Hey check this out” list works out very well, at least this time.
