Tag Archives: science-fiction

4o Years Ago….About Today

From Dvice’s’s 5 tech predictions from 1968 that were dead-on (and 5 that were completely nuts): “40 years ago, science fiction writer James R. Berry predicted what the future would look like on November 18th, 2008 — today. His piece for a 1968 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, ‘40 Years in the Future,’ made some impressive [...]

Damn! This is some good news blow!

From Chuck Klosterman’s A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: “Chuck Klosterman issues his predictions for the coming century. Featuring robot wars, near annihilation, and President Tom Brady.”

Failing to Appreciate the Gestalt

gestalt |gə sh tält; -ˑ sh tôlt| : A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.
Theodore Sturgeon’s novel, More Than Human, tracks the formation of “a gestalt life-form” (105), a “new kind of human [...]

Somehow They Named Us Well

“Words,” Joseph Addison wrote, “when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.” In a book where words are used not only to create and describe a world, but also to populate it, perhaps a writer’s most important word [...]

Of its time

Written in 1961, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of Michael Smith, a human born on Mars and raised by Martians, who arrives on Earth to discover that his ancestral species is alien to him. The novel chronicles the political, spiritual, and social ramifications of his time on the planet using [...]

Who Can Speak Out of The Net

Katin shook the nets again. “From star to star…imagine, a great web that spreads across the galaxy, as far as man. That’s the matrix in which history happens today. Don’t you see? That’s it. That’s my theory. Each individual is a junction in that net, and the strands between are the cultural, the economic, the [...]

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