Tag: science fiction
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Escaping Into Fantasy and Sci-Fi Settings: My Top 5 Picks
While some people enjoy contemporary settings in their fiction, I’ve always preferred escaping to someplace different. It’s part of why I love fantasy and science fiction so much. Having a video game or fantasy novel whisk me away to some fictional world for a spell is the most exciting sort of adventure. It helps me…
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How Realistic Are Humanoid Aliens?
Aliens are all over science fiction, and many of them I adore. Characters such as Spock and Kira from Star Trek, Neytiri from Avatar, and most of the Mass Effect crew are some of my favorite characters from any fiction in any genre, ever. But all of these characters I’ve just mentioned are distinctly humanoid, and I wonder if that’s…
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Halloween Movie Review: “28 Days Later”
Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is my favorite horror film — maybe because it doesn’t play out like a horror film. The opening scene depicts animal activists breaking into a lab to release chimpanzees, who are in fact infected with a rage virus. This launches the zombie film that’s not really about zombies and the horror film…
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