More news from the Red Planet! At a press conference held just yesterday, members of the Mars Science Laboratory announced that Curiosity discovered some interesting gravel patterns in the Gale Crater which would seem to indicate that water once flowed there. What more, according to William Dietrich (Curiosity’s co-investigator from the University of California, Berkeley) the […]
Religion in Sci-Fi
by storiesbywilliams on September 24, 2012 in Authors, Books, Sci-Fi and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 3001: Final Odyssey, Alastair Reynolds, Aldous Huxley, anakin skywalker, arrakis, Arthur C Clarke, asbolution gap, bene gesserit sisterhood, chasm city, children of dune, darth vader, duncan, Dune, dune messiah, emperor palpatine, f451, farhenheit 451, firstborn, flow my tears the policeman said, foundation, Frank Herbert, fremen, FTL, gene roddenberry, george lucas, god, god emperor of dune, guy montag, h.g. wells, harkonnens, hyperspatial drive, i robot, indoctrination virus, Isaac Asimov, judea-christianity, justice, kaballah, Kefitzat Haderech, kwisatz haderach, leto II, luke skywalker, midichlorians, monoliths, Obi Wan, one state, padishah emperor, Paul Atreides, Philip k dick, picard, PKD, prescience, Qui gonn Jin, Ray Bradbury, redemption ark, revelation space, robert a heinlein, sandworms, sky haussmann, sky's edge, spice, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, starfleet, stranger in a strange land, the big three, the enterprise, the exegesis of philip k dick, The Force, the jesus incident, the lazarus effect, the shape of things to come, VALIS, VALIS trilogy, war of the worlds, World State, yevgeny zamyatin
Since its inception as a literary genre, religion has played an important role in science fiction. Whether it took the form of informing the author’s own beliefs, or was delivered as part of their particular brand of social commentary, no work of sci-fi has ever been bereft of spirituality.Even self-professed atheists and materialists had something […]
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More Giant Robots
by storiesbywilliams on May 22, 2012 in Books, Giant Robots, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged battletech, cain, dragoons, giant robots, gundam wing, h.g. wells, immortals, mad cat, mad dog, madox 01, martians, mech, mechas, metal gear ray, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, metal gear sons of liberty, metal skin panic, mobile suit, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, robotech, starcraft, stephen spieldberg, templar, tripod walker, war of the worlds, z gundam, zentraedi, zentraedi battlepod
Welcome back. I had a lot of fun with the last installment, so here’s another! Updated, expanded, and with plenty of additions. Ah, screw it! Let’s get to it. Immortal: Back to the Starcraft universe for a sequel. Much like its predecessor, the Immortal was a vehicle for severely wounded Templars who still wanted to […]
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