Hey all. Have I said yet that it’s good to be back? Well, truth be told, it feels like I’ve only really got back into the swing of things in the past few days, and after a two week hiatus to boot. I also noticed that it’s been awhile since I’ve done a conceptual post, […]
The Post-Apocalypse in Sci-Fi (Part III)
by storiesbywilliams on July 24, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged a canticle for leibowitz, albertian monks, api, apirana maketuin, asian coalitan, atlantic confederacy, by the waters of babylon, carnegie, church versus state, cold war, cyclical history, denzel washington, farnham's freehold, fiat homo, fiat lux, fiat voluntas tua, gary oldman, gladys mitchell, h.g. wells, isaac edward leibowitz, john hobson, judith merril, Let There Be Light, Let There Be Man, lombardi, malcolm mcdowell, memorabilia, mila kunis, morlocks and eloi, new dark ages, new rome, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, order of leibowitz, perrin, post-apocalyptic, quo peregrinatur grez pastor secum, robert a heinlein, shadow on the hearth, simpletons, simplification, solara, stephen vincent benet, texarkana, the bible, the book of eli, the curator, the effect, the place of the gods, the quiet earth, the security office, the time machine, the time traveller, Thy Will Be Done, vietnam war, walter m miller jr., whither wanders the flock the shepher is with them, world war III
The Book of Eli: This 2010 movie – starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and directed by the Hughes Brothers – takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States thirty years after nuclear war has left it a scarred and desolate place. Enter into this a wandering nomad named Eli (Washington), a man who is wandering to […]
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Utopian Science Fiction
by storiesbywilliams on June 1, 2012 in Novels, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A-lo, Anarres, Arthur C Clarke, Balnibarbi, benbili, Brobdingnagian, childhood's end, Communism, dystopian literature, ecological communes, ecotopia, erewhon, ernest callenbach, Glubbdubdrib, gullivers travels, h.g. wells, Houyhnhnms, japan, jonas, karl marx, Laputa, left hand of darkness, Letters from Nowhere, Lilliput, lilliputians, lois lowry, Luggnagg, marxism, men like gods, overlords, overmind, plato, receiver of memory, revolution, revolutonary justice, saint thomas more, samuel butler, sir thomas more, social experiment, socrates, socratic dialogue, Tao Hua Yuan, Tao Yuanming, the cold war, the dispossessed, the giver, the republic, The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring, the time machine, Thur, Urras, ursula k le guin, utopia, utopian literature, vietnam war, w.f. hegel
Welcome back my friends! A funny thing happened just this morning. I was looking at an old article - titled Dystopian Science Fiction – and realized that something was missing. Yes, this is the article that earned me most of my current followers and the bulk of my traffic on this site, but I quickly […]
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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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