“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 Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” – Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Is it better to burn twice as bright but only live half as long? This was one of the enduring philosophical questions explored by the cult classic Blade Runner. Blade Runner is an example of philosophical sci-fi, sci-phi, or “philoscifi” as I call it.
All good stories entertain, but they may soon be forgotten. Philoscifi stays with you because it doesn’t just speculate what will happen and what could have happened; it invites you to think about what these events would mean to humanity and to you. For example, how does finding intelligent life change our place in the universe and our conception of God (Robert J. Sawyer’s Calculating God)?
Table of Contents - Interesting concepts from sci-tech news and fictional works (games, books, movies) as well as thoughts on the art of storytelling.
Food for Thought
- How sports medicine debate can help society
- The Internet is for porn
- Intelligent Design is not science
- Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts
- Is technology eroding morality?
- Immortality
- The real life consequences of video games
- Why resist the idea of intelligent animals?
- Dogma has no place in science
Storytelling
- Believable make-believe
- What action movies teach us about heroes
- Star Trek vs. Star Wars
- Are sci-fi writers “better” than others?
- Writers group: dialogue
- 3 creative writing approaches
- The artist’s measure of success
- Your topic dictates the creative skills required
- Sci-fi vs. Fantasy
- Sci-fi is ideal for philosophy
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