Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: scifi

  • Why Cancelling Dollhouse Might Not Have Been Such a Bad Thing

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m almost as happy Dollhouse got picked up for another season as are the acolytes of Joss Whedonism. It had some real downers (I’m not sure I could really accept the “blind girl with camera eyes infiltrating a cult for ATF and FBI” plotline), but I think all but the querulous…

  • The Religion of Science Fiction

    Good science fiction authors are at the same time remarkably prophetic in their thinking and humorously influenced by their own time. I remember laughing aloud when one of the characters in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land began darning a sock. To me, it was hilarious that in a futuristic world with space travel, characters would…

  • Firefly

    The ill-fated Joss Whedon show Firefly has earned a significant place in overall geek culture, so I have been meaning to watch it for some time now. It’s an excellent take on the space western and I think that for the most part it deserves the fame it has achieved. Unlike other popular sci-fi stories…