(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) There’s going to be plenty to say, write, and learn from the horrors of COVID-19. This is about the good things we’ve supposedly learned, and the … Continue reading
I was going to write about networking, but I caught an article on Kindle micro-erotica fiction and wanted to analyze it. Over at Cracked Magazine (unofficial motto “The most unexpectedly informative site on the internet.”), author Robert Evans interviewed author Peter … Continue reading
Lately I’ve seen a trend in gaming that seems intriguing. It looks like we’ve got a new iteration on the Minecraft genre – games that involve self-created vehicles that are realized with voxel technology and completely independent components. We’ve got … Continue reading
There will be a sequel to Sharknado, that oddball film that burned up social media while kicking science in the groin. This gets The Asylum and their mockbusters, derivatives, and weird b-movies even more attention. I swear they’re in serious … Continue reading
It seems like the last few weeks we’ve been discussing the potential of a Hollywood meltdown. Admittedly with Spielberg starts talking disaster, you listen. There’s plenty of comments on it, from our own Serdar to Cracked.com. So though I don’t … Continue reading
Serdar Yegulyap and I have been having a scattered dialogue about science fiction, culture, and economics as of late, mostly over at his blog. (As he and I are both fans of old-school correspondence, I’m working to make sure I … Continue reading
There’s no doubt we live in a consumer culture in America, and a good part of the Western (and Eastern) world. There’s plenty of things made, plenty to buy, and we do so beyond our basic needs. Obviously, not everyone … Continue reading
Back on April 26th I did a post on how there’s a kind of SF Gap. My theory can be roughly summarized as: A lot of our SF dreams and ideas have come true (often in consumer electronics). It’s all … Continue reading
Well, OK, Chick-Fil-A is having some medieval-themed “Date Knight” event. This event encourages sons to take their mothers out to Chick-Fil-A. It appears to be something to encourage family bonding via a kind of knights-and-damsels themed event. OK, so look … Continue reading
I’m starting to loose track of the amount of adaptions-of-anime going on in Japan. Yamato? Check. Gatchaman? Coming up. Captain Harlock? Enjoy a badass trailer. Patlabor? Coming. I would like to make an interesting speculation. You know how now and … Continue reading