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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THE RETURN OF THE MONSTROUS PART 2: ALIEN RESURRECTION, AND THE MONSTROUS GAZE DG Jones In Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection (1997), which
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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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THE RETURN OF THE MONSTROUS PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MONSTER DG Jones We’re obsessed with monsters. As individuals, and as
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If you haven’t seen The Invention of Lying, starring Ricky Gervais, I highly recommend it. It’s cleverly written, Gervais and his supporting
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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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I’ve been travelling to Mars – off and on – since 1975, just before the first Viking landers arrived there. Now, I
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE SOUL IN WESTWORLD Emmet O’Cuana “The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all”
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GATTACA HAS A PROBLEM WITH GENETIC ENGINEERING BUT WHY? Rich Monetti Gattaca provides a platform to discuss genetic engineering You ever notice
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Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13:13. Every era has its
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In Larry Niven’s Known Space Universe, humanity finds itself, early in its exploration of space, under attack by the Kzinti, a race
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Science-fiction and fantasy tend toward the epic. In science-fiction, the sheer scale of the visible universe inspires the heroic, and in the
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