Denis Villenueve’s Dune (2021) opens with indigenous people resisting colonialism. The Black, Brown, and swarthy natives of the desert planet Arrakis contrast with the…
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The New Space Race: Space Exploration or Space Exploitation
Over the summer there were a series of rocket launches. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would have you believe that those launches were in…
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Interview with an Iranian Otaku
Japanese animated films (anime,アニメ) and the manga (漫画) from which they are often derived has grown into a global cultural force. Our Middle East editor,…
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The Problem With “bugging in”
First of all, let’s talk about the democratization of, well, everything. Just because we say something is a certain way or…
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Zombies and the Global South
In 1968, George Romero debuted his feature film “Night of the Living Dead” with Judith Odea and Duane Jones. It was “revolutionary” at the time…
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Why you shouldn’t read SF reviews
A couple of things have happened this month in the world of SF, and both of them happened over at Netflix. Disney and Comcast mouthpieces…
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