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To Write Better Science Fiction, Read More Westerns!

Saturday , 14, October 2017 Vlad James Fiction 9 Comments

At first glance, they don’t have much in common.  One deals with the future, the other with the past.  One with alien civilizations and another with eminently familiar human ones.  One with advanced science, and the other with nothing more complex than saddle bags and .45 Colts. And yet, there is a lot of similarity, […]

The First Great Science Fiction Movie

Saturday , 23, September 2017 Vlad James Movies 20 Comments

People have strange ideas about the history of science fiction in film.  Some years ago, a Canadian video games programmer and designer in his early 40s, no fool, sagely explained to me that 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) completely changed everything about the genre, and that before then, silly movies like Barbarella were all audiences had to watch. […]

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