As I think about media and science fiction, I find myself asking some basic questions. If science fiction is about the future, is there a genre requirement about how far ahead an author must look in order to be included in the canon? I took a trip back in time and explored my long history [...]
1984 - Before. During. Beyond. On June 8th, 1949 - author Eric Arthur Blair published what is now considered to be a dystopian, science fiction novel. The title was Nineteen Eighty-Four, or 1984 as it’s now mostly known. He published it under his pen name, George Orwell - a name he took to not embarrass [...]
In the future, we will live in a nano-world. Technology so tiny it is, by almost any reasonable measure, invisible. But rather than craft a story in the spirit of a swashbuckling adventure of Luke Skywalker, author Neal Stephenson paints a neo-victorian world and tells the story of a young girl, Nell as the story's [...]
I have to say, I love this question. Science Fiction is so many things. It’s a genre certainly, but even that is intrinsically complicated. Let’s start at the beginning. I’m a magician. I’ve been a magician since I was twelve years old. So Arthur C. Clarke’s quote has framed my life, my career, and my [...]
