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Jurassic Generation

Winter/Spring 2013 • Ari N. Schulman on the unintended consequences of the twenty-year-old dinosaur movie

The Dark and Starry Eyes of Ray Bradbury

Summer 2012 • Lauren Weiner on the wonderful weirdness of the late author

Avatar and the Flight from Reality

Spring 2010 • James Bowman on the sci-fi blockbuster and the mimetic tradition in art

Plato in Space

Summer 2009 • Charles T. Rubin on science, politics, and faith in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks

Summer 2009 • Alan Jacobs on the “Culture” novels and the price of bliss

Card’s Game

The Unfortunate Decline of Orson Scott Card

Fall 2007 • Peter Suderman

Immortality Lite

Winter 2007 • Ross Douthat on the sublime and the foolish in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain

Our Childless Dystopia

Winter 2007 • James Bowman on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, as novel and film

A Clone’s Lament

Spring 2006 • James Bowman on life as a useful pre-cadaver

Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?

Spring 2006 • John Derbyshire on Verne’s lesser-known works

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