The Personal Vastness of Three-Body Problem

The Three Body Problem is the first part of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Trilogy which has become the most recent addition to literary science fiction canon. Translated from Chinese it immerses even the foreign reader into the cultural heritage of historical China and a frighteningly realistic modern world. On it's own this first novel…

Steven Universe is Over and I am Totally Fine

Last week the final episodes of Steven Universe Future aired. The limited series was the conclusion to Cartoon Network's most popular, ground-breaking show that pushed boundaries into LGTBQ+ advocacy and sci-fi canon alike. After six seasons and a feature length movie, the one hour of four episodes on Friday concluded an epic coming-of-age tale in…

Book of Dust: A Review so far

When I was a freshman in college I picked up the His Dark Materials series, and finished it all in about a month. I was admittedly a little late to the party, and I was distinctly aware reading the books that they were meant for a younger audience. It was like reading Harry Potter as…

Cuphead and the Art of Rage Quitting

What have I done? In the endless search for a decent, local co-op multiplayer game I can play on the couch with my partner, I have finally purchased Cuphead on my Switch. It's been out for a few months now and has quickly become the newest indie-game sensation. This two-player run and gun created by…

In Defense of Game of Thrones Season 8

...from somebody who has thoroughly disliked the past three seasons of the show. Full disclosure, I am a giant nerd for A Song of Ice and Fire. Not the kind of nerd that will rage about every little change, but the kind that is genuinely disappointed we never got to see characters like Victarion Greyjoy…

Back in Black Mirror (SPOILERS)

Over the past couple years Black Mirror has silently become the most popular and critically acclaimed sci-fi series in the streaming landscape. The originally BBC series moved to Netflix has quickly become a new Twilight Zone filling a space of soft sci-fi expanding into horror and other genres, which strikes a closer and deeper chord…

Thoughts on Thor: Ragnarok

The thing is that even though Thor: Ragnarok does follow the beat for beat comedy and action formula that packages all marvel movies, it still makes it fresh by pushing the superhero movie into the bounds of a different genre. In large part by letting Taika Waititi make his version of a Thor movie, which is a sci-fi, buddy comedy, near parody of a Thor movie, Thor manages to make itself stand out

Challenger Deep Book Review

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman is a powerful novelistic portrait of mental illness crashing into adolescence, how it affects family and social life, and the constant struggle to cope. Though this story is heartwrenchingly realistic at times, based on Shusterman’s own experience with his son’s schizophrenia, it is one of those books that is so…