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Show some spine: the problem with Black Mirror “Bête Noire”
The Black Mirror episode “Bête Noire” has a broken spine. What do I meant by this and how might it have been fixed? Let’s dig in!
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Manifesto for the world famous tour guide
Being a tour guide requires that you assist, entertain, and inform…in that order.
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Jules Verne imagined a better future, but not what made it worth imagining
Not having read Jules Verne, I’d hoped to be delighted by an early science fiction “master”. What I found was pretty appalling.
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How to make the inevitable surprising
Do your characters have a destiny? Or do they make choices? This post discusses how both can be true.
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How to crew an airship
A short scene describing the roles of all the men serving aboard a military airship in A Philosophy of Air.