In the UK a General Election is due to take place on the 7th of May this year. Like all “democratic” countries, the same old rounds of suit-wearing male dullards flood the airwaves with false promise and hope. The electorate is tired and angry and valiantly vows to vote differently this time—except they never do. Politicians…
The first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is out and, I know this is going to sound surprising/annoying, but I though it just “all right.” What I mean by this is, the movie doesn’t just look “okay,” nor does look “great,” and only potentially “good,” thus, “all right.” I don’t know, maybe it’s because I grew up…
Quantic: a homogeneous function of two or more variables having rational and irrational coefficients. Dream: a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep, or, a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal. Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain is a drama. It’s a video game, but a drama nonetheless. It tells a mysterious story with…
Philip K. Dick is viewed by many as the father of modern science fiction. His book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the reasons for that title. Originally published in 1968, the story follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is charged by the police to eliminate rogue androids. However, this story…
Is genre writing, particularly science fiction and fantasy literature? Recently it has become a topic of hot debate among the creative writing big wigs. One side believes that no, fantasy and science fiction are not literature, period. The other side thinks that they can be. What is literature? Literature is defined as: “writings in which…
