Tag: General SciFi

• Frank Herbert’s Dune: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

  

  Science fiction is often about technology, yet there are some fictional universes where some technologies we take for granted are taboo. Let’s take computers, for example. Religious dictats are as prevalent in one world as strictures against Muslims and Jews eating bacon are here, today, arguably even more enforced. That is the world of Frank…

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  September 20, 2020

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• Social Commentary in Science Fiction: Mockingjay

  I know I have already written a post on The Hunger Games but here I want to write specifically about the final book/film where everything changes and the story is brought to a satisfactory conclusion (well, for some). Though it follows the same theme of celebrity culture, there are other elements that make this final…

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  September 24, 2015

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  fantasy, General SciFi, Horror, hunger games, hunger games trilogy, media war, mockingjay, role of media in war, sci fi, social commentary in hunger games, social commentary in mockingjay

• Motivation and Character: X-Men’s Trask

  I finally saw X-Men: Days of Future Past yesterday and thought it was awesome. I expected it to be the final instalment in a series that lasted twelve years and seven films with a few that never came to pass (the Origins spin-off series faltered with Wolverine yet what we got in its place – First Class –…

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  June 18, 2014

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