The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Race Essentialism of Sci-fi Hybrids
Sci-fi's use of cross-species "hybrids" highlights the persistence of race essentialism by Kathryn Finch In the 1972 blaxploitation film The Thing With Two Heads, a man who is dying of cancer arranges to have his head transplanted onto the body
REVIEW: Halloween Kills Is Melting
Although far from perfect, Halloween Kills is the film that finally delivers on the promise of the 1978 original's iconic ending. by val Loughcrewe The Shape is a God. John Carpenter and Deborah Hill knew this without realizing it when, at the end
REVIEW: Dune (2021)
Denis Villeneuve succeeds in bringing Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic back to the screen, but at the cost of some of its strangeness. by Kurt Schiller In one sense, I have seen Dune twice. In another, I have seen it dozens of times. I
Guest Curator: Jess Levine
A cyberpunk playlist for cyberpunk times. by Jess Levine As a genre, synthwave fits naturally into the mold of both the storytelling “concept album” and the instrumental album. Synthwave and its brethren are love letters to the soundtracks of the Eighties
Nowhere Here: Cyberspace & the Assassination of the Unreal
The 40-year rise and fall of cyberspace's symbolic unreality. by Kurt Schiller Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from