Prescience 5: Hologram Hate Fest
Image: the Dixon Naval Radio Transmitter Facility, a former U.S. Navy Radio Transmitter facility in Dixon, California. More info and source here; https://www.flickr.com/photos/135665552@N04/27290340351/in/photostream/ First off: Happy St. Patricks Day! At time of publishing, I’ll be counting down the hours until I’m let out of work and immediately beeline to the closest Irish pub. I don’t…
Prescience 4: Nope and Chinese Science Fiction
Featured image: The Southern California Logistics Airport, an airport and storage facility in Victorville, CA that is used for commercial cargo flights and long term storage of old aircraft. This is a dual issue! The holidays have been a busy time for me, and because of that I wasn’t able to finish the December issue…
Prescience 3: Against All Lore
Featured Image; Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. It looks like a video game map. Basically the only science fiction I’ve even engaged with in the last month has been Disney’s latest Star Wars series, Andor. This time of year always gets busy for me, and I’ve…
Short Post: Can We Bring Tech Utopianism Back?
Or is it a bad time? Today’s post is going to be a bit unusual. It’s short. Imagine that the year is 2007 and this is your favorite gaming blog. That’s the vibe right now. You know, it feels weird eulogizing tech utopianism now, since it’s well and truly dead. Already on unsteady ground as…
Presence 2: Cyberpunk In The Shell
Featured Image; Navy personnel pushing helicopters off the deck of an aircraft carrier to make more room on the deck for refugees fleeing the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. One of my favorite pictures of all time. Poetic in how simply it shows the defeat of advanced technology. Man, you…
Prescience 1: In Which I Talk About A Specific Aesthetic That I’m Likely Misnaming
Cover Image: The Topanga Microwave Relay Tower, part of AT&T’s Long Lines program, via this reddit post. In our popular imagination Science Fiction is grandiose and scales vast changes. Those could be social, technological, temporal, or even distances, but the point is that we generally think of Science Fiction as spanning some giant visible change.…
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Huge Manga and Sci-fi Head. 2 Plugged In. Boring Desk Job.