Category: Science Fiction
What Makes Us Human – Observations on Blade Runner
How can it not know what it is? — Rick Deckard, Blade Runner That can be a question or a...
Excerpt from Note to Self
Under the weight of regret, I hit my knees and leaned onto my hands, digging my fingers into the...
To Save a Life
“I didn’t want to kill them all. I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer!”[1] Ender Wiggin...
Illustrating Faith
Long before Aslan bounded onto the literary scene, C.S. Lewis was already smuggling theology into...
Personhood in Altered Carbon: The Body as Fundamental
We live in a culture that determines a person’s eligibility for human rights according to his or...
‘The Spiritual Borders of Sci-Fi’: C.S. Lewis and A Voyage to Arcturus
Preliminary: Why A Voyage to Arcturus? The limits of the literary genre Science Fiction (‘sci-fi’)...
Imagining Morality: Alasdair Macintyre’s Virtue Theory & Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
“Apart from many important aesthetic reasons, I think that we read novels because they give us the...
Book Review: Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight Neglects Philosophy in Favor of Politics
Brandon Sanderson’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. Ever since finishing Robert...
Time Travelers
We are two one dimensional time travellers and the loneliest thing is the state of out of sync...
To Infinity and Beyond? Science Fiction, Imagination, and Education
Science fiction has improved my grasp of God and the reality of the human condition. Statements...
The Autumn People: How Love and Laughter Conquer Evil in Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
“‘Time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than...
Materialism and Midichlorians: Pantheism, Naturalism, and Hope in Star Wars
Many people have complaints about the storyline and acting, but it has not prevented the Star Wars...
Gender, Not Sex: Presentation of Gender Roles in Lewis’s The Ransom Trilogy
Having abused and misconstrued the word “gender,” we moderns have succeeded in obscuring its...
Spacemen without Chests? Virtue and Technology in Star Trek and Dune
“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men...
