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Op-eds about the intersections between science, philosophy, and science fiction.

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His Missing Materials

by G. Scott Huggins I was asked to speak recently as part of a panel at a convention on the anti-Narnia trilogy

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The Gospel According To James Holden

by G. Scott Huggins Warning: this column includes extensive spoilers for The Expanse, Season 3. Sometimes I’m astonished by the spiritual lessons

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When Pain Doesn’t Hurt: A Lesson From Dune

by G. Scott Huggins In the wake of the building excitement surrounding Denis Villeneuve’s attempt to take on the filming of another

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Does This Offend Thee?

by G. Scott Huggins This is a column with more questions than answers, I’m afraid, but one I feel needs to be

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The Day The Earth Still Stood

by G. Scott Huggins Every now and then, I see things so differently from other people, I wonder if I’ve gone insane.

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The Question of Contact

July 11, 2017 heralds the 20th anniversary of the release of Contact, the sci-fi classic based on Carl Sagan’s novel

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Four Thousand Holes in Brexit, Lancashire

It was in the Summer of 1967, as the psychedelic sounds from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album permeated through the parks, the

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Day Trip to the Dark Side of the Moon

A reflection on the life and death of philosopher and author Robert Pirsig, written from the perspective of the characters in his

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On Confusing Science with Policy

A new series of opinion pieces on popular science and predicting the future begins by examining the arguments which propelled the recent

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