Tag: science fiction

  • Less Than You Desire, But More Than You Deserve: Three Films About Rich People

    Less Than You Desire, But More Than You Deserve: Three Films About Rich People

    Hollywood’s apparent mistrust of the rich has always been cynical and insincere. Rich people know that an effective way to part poor people with their money is to produce a commodity that also seems to hate rich people. A commodity can’t actually hate anything of course. But the rich people who produce them certainly want…

  • Time to Die

    Time to Die

    I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.  Rutger Hauer likely had no idea he was presenting humanity with its own perfect…

  • Space Madness

    Space Madness

    Donald Trump wants The Expanse to be real. If there were ever a president who could watch a show about a solar system constantly at war with itself and miss the entire point, it is this man. Picture it: Trump, late at night, holed up in the President’s Bedroom. Crumpled Big Mac wrappers litter the foot of…