When the chief engineer John Arnold fails to return to the safety of the bunker in the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the character Ellie Sattler volunteers to retrieve him. The power is out and the dinosaurs are running freely through the park, causing destruction and chaos in their wake. John Hammond, the venture capitalist who [...]
On May 25th, 1979, the science fiction horror film Alien premiered. Nowadays, it is regarded as both a science fiction and horror film classic, but it premiered to mixed reviews. It was called everything from “deeply dislikable” to “…a horrid film, skillful and studied in its nastiness…” to the quite stinging denouncement of “..an overblown [...]
“Justine shook her head mournfully. ‘I do not fear to die,’ she said; ‘that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the [...]
I believe that science fiction and fantasy are two different languages explaining the same kind of concepts. A simplistic overview posits that science fiction deals with the future, while fantasy deals with the past. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth is his own imagining of the history of England while Robert Heinlein enjoyed exploring different militaristic societies [...]
