Gee, I don’t know what to say here… Aside from the fact that this post coincides quite nicely with the 2nd anniversary of this blog, which just came and went, and comes what I can only assume will be a week before the site reaches the milestone of 250,000 hits. So I guess there are […]
Dystopan Literature Over Time
Came across this list on Goodreads, thanks largely to Molly Spring’s post (which I will reblog next since it’s pretty dawn awesome!). Basically, the table gives graphic representation to historical trends and the popularity of dystopian lit over the past few decades. Though it does preclude Yevengy Zamyatin’s We and Jack London’s The Iron Heel by […]
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Sci-Fi Drugs
The other night, I had one of those moments. It was a moment where I found myself thinking about a cool concept and realized that it would make a damn fine post. It’s also one that interests me quite a bit and has even influenced my own writing. So as quickly as I could, I […]
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More Utopian Science Fiction
Boy this is fun, and like I said last time, overdue! For fans of literature and science fiction in particular, you really can’t do justice to a genre unless you examine its opposite as well. Not only is it fun and interesting, it kind of opens your eyes to the fact that we find a […]
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“Red Skies: Soviet Sci-Fi”
This morning, I came across a very cool article in Scoop.it, about science fiction as a genre in the former Soviet Union. As it explained, until recently this area has remained virtually unexplored, with historians focusing on the “greats” of the 1920′s – men like Eisenstein – and the “socialist realism” of the 1930′s (aka. […]
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Dystopia – Final Word
Well, after many, many suggestions on how my list of dystopian franchises could be augmented – this mainly consisted of poeple asking me “what about (blank)?” – I decided there were a few that I really couldn’t proceed without mentioning. This will be my last tour of the dystopia factory, lord knows that place gets […]
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Demolition Man
by storiesbywilliams on October 11, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged Aldous Huxley, benjammin bratt, Brave New World, cryogenic, cryoprison, demolition man, denis leary, dr. raymond cocteau, dystopian, Fight of the Dead, Holtak harca, István Nemere, john spartan, Lenina Crowe, lenina huxley, movie review, nigel hawthorne, pc age, raymond cocteau, san angeles, sandra bullock, satire, satirical, Sci-Fi, science fiction, simon phoenix, social commentary, sylvester stallone, utopian, wesley snipes
Ah yes, another classic guilty-pleasure movie! At least, that is my enduring opinion of this film. When I first saw it as a surly teenager, I thought it was a good shoot-em-up. As I got older, I recognized the satirical elements in it – or rather, the attempts at them – and concluded that they […]
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