Avid readers are familiar with the joys and sorrows of film and tv adaptations: for every awesome movie that brings your favorite characters to life, there’s another one that tries to destroy them. Given that the next few years promise to be absolutely saturated with adaptations, the smart book nerd will buckle up now, because […]
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey landed in theaters 50 years ago today. I am old enough that I saw it first-run in the theater. I probably have seen again, at least in parts, dozens of time in the decades since. But I still remember the wonder of that first encounter. In honor of the […]
It’s March 2015, and I am standing on the bridge of a starship. The crew work stations look worn, the walls are covered with warning signs, and the grated floor looks like something designed to be functional. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that I was standing on a real ship, hurtling through space. Instead, I am on […]