Last time, we took the long trip from Earth to Mars and back again with Captain Franco and his crew of Earthmen, who faced the philosophical conundrum of killing and eating an intelligent alien life form in order to ensure their daily meals on the way home. Dick’s satirical condemnation of colonialism and the objectification […]
Okay, last time, we revisited two of Ray Bradbury’s most chilling stories: The Pedestrian and The Veldt . Now, we’re moving from one science fiction legend to another… Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick featured brilliantly realized futuristic settings, terrifying conflicts between man and the mysterious other, and alien life forms that ranged from beautiful […]
Last time, I took a walk with Mr. Leonard Mead, the eponymous character of Ray Bradbury’s The Passenger. Bradbury’s story could be interpreted as a scathing depiction of a world addicted to technology, but I saw it as, instead, an exploration of the fear that the world will pass us by and our way will […]
In today’s social media-obsessed culture, where your opinion ain’t worth squat unless you tweet it out, it’s been noted – and tweeted, you bet – that we’re getting dangerously close to the dystopian future that sci-fi writers made careers out of prophesizing. In fact, it’s mostly a single work that our modern world gets compared […]
I grew up in the ‘80s, and while I never had a weekend of searching for dead bodies while avoiding trains and Kiefer Sutherland or searching for pirates gold with a guy obsessed with Rocky Road candy bars, I did have an overnight slumber party in which my friend Erik had smuggled in a book […]
Today, my journey through Marvel’s most iconic first issues takes me to 1961, which saw the debut of Marvel’s first family with The Fantastic Four #1. The Fantastic Four #1 is, of course, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. While The Avengers #1, last Marvel debut I covered, brought together Earth’s mightiest heroes as a […]
