The Vacuum of Intent: A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Incuriosity and Narrative Collapse in High-Concept Science Fiction

The trajectory of science fiction cinema in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has often been defined by a widening chasm between aesthetic sophistication and intellectual commitme…

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Reading “Pirate Care” ahead of my #Lifepod conversation with the authors next week. Are there any questions you’d like to ask them?
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Lifepod (1981)

Lifepod is a poor man’s hybrid knockoff of 2001 and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The movie’s scope is decidedly less epic, so the low budget doesn’t really hurt it — quite the opposite, in fact; …

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