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Sci-Fi Drugs

by storiesbywilliams on June 4, 2012 in Books, Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a gram is better than a damn, A Scanner Darkly, Babylon 5, bene gesserit, bester, black thunder, blue velvet, Brave New World, cain, can-d, cocaine, dancer, drug counter-culture, drug culture, drug subculture, Dune, dust, enki virus, g'kar, guild navigators, keannu reaves, L. Bob Rife, layouts, leto II, londo mollari, mdma, minority report, neuroin, new-path, nuke, OCP, old detroit, Paul Atreides, pcp, perky pat, Philip k dick, PKD, precognitives, PreCrime, prescients, psi cops, psi corps, red ramrod, robert downey jr, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, S-D, sharing, slow death, snow crash, Soma, spice, substance d, sumerian tablet, the bridge trilogy, the guild, the spice melange, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, tom cruise, tower of babel myth, war on drugs, white noise, William Gibson, winona ryder, woody harrelson, World State

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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Dystopian Science Fiction

by storiesbywilliams on March 26, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 1984, airstrip one, Balnibarbi, bnw, Brave New World, Brobdingnag, brotherhood of man, candide, D-503, doublethink, dystopian literature, Eastasia, eloi, Eurasia, everhard manuscript, f451, Farenheit 451, George Orwell, Glubbdubdrib, goldstein manifesto, gulliver, gullivers travels, h.g. wells, handmaids tale, Houyhnhnms, I-330, jack london, jonathon swift, Julia, Laputa, leibnizian optimism, lisbon earthquake, Luggnagg, lulliput, MEPHI, morlocks, newspeak, Oceania, samuel goldstein, satirical literature, Soma, the first revolt, the green wall, the intergral, the iron heel, the mercenaries, the oligarchs, the one state, the second revolt, the time machine, the traveller, the world state, thoughtcrime, Totalitarianism, voltaire, We, William Gibson, winston smith, world war III, wwIII, yevgeny zamyatin

Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of dystopian! Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m working on an anthology of dark science fiction with some fellow writer’s over at Goodreads (called Writer’s Worth). Or it might just be that this seemed like the next logical step in the whole “conceptual science fiction” thing. Regardless, when it comes […]

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Equilibrium

by storiesbywilliams on August 14, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged science fiction, 1984, Brave New World, Totalitarian, Soma, Christian Bale, dystopian, equilibrium, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean, Angus Macfadyen, Father, Dominic Purcell, John Preston, Seamus, Patridge, Resistance, Jurgen, William Fichtner, Brandt, Emily Watson, Mary O'Brien, grammoton cleric, tetragrammaton, world war III, Kurt Wimmer, Preston, Maria Pia Calzone, inspired by 1984, rebels, prozium, Libria, cleric, EC-10, emotional content, MPAA rating system, William Butler Yeats, Yeats, Viviana, gun kata, Nether, Farenheit 451, sci-fi classics

And we’re back! I tell ya, I’m mentally burnt from reviewing so many classics that I actually enjoyed! But I guess that’s to be expected. Somehow, its just easier to burn and mock bad movies, as opposed to dissecting and delving into movies with real themes, plots, memorable characters and complex messages. And I have […]

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Brave New World Revisited

by storiesbywilliams on June 21, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged Aldous Huxley, Alphas, Americanism, Bernard Marx, Betas, Brave New World, classic, Communism, Community Identity Stability, Deltas, English, Fanny Crowe, Fascism, feelies, Fordism, Gammas, Henry Ford, Huxley, Iotas, John the Savage, Lenina Crowe, literature, Malthus, Malthusian, Mustaffa Mond, satire, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Soma

As a follow-up to my last post, I wanted to delve into the two great satire-epics in more detail. First up, the satire that came true: Brave New World! And as the title says, I would also like to include a little commentary on the thoughtful essay that capped off his thoughts about his magnum […]

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1984 vs. Brave New World

by storiesbywilliams on June 20, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged 1984, 9/11, Afghanistan, Aldous Huxley, Amusing ourselves to death, authors, bookshelf, Brave New World, Bush, classics, distopian, English, feelies, George Orwell, Huxley, Iraq, libraries, literature, orange alerts, Orwell, Room 101, satire, science fiction, Soma, Thought Police, top 10 sci-fi, top 100 books, Totalitarianism, utopia, utopian, War on Terror

Whenever I’m confronted by a virtual bookshelf or asked to list my favorite authors, I always make sure that George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are ranked among the top 10. Both of these men were immensely influential for me, inspiring not only my love of literature but also my desire to write. In that, I […]

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