When Mad Max: Fury Road opened, pretty much everyone agreed it was one of the best films of the year, and a new classic of the post-apocalyptic genre. Everyone, that is, save for a subset of dudes from one of the internet’s darkest corners, who lash out at anything that suggests that women can be just as […]
Kieran Shea’s Off Rock by has a number of elements associated with great science fiction: a feeling of isolation out in the black, nifty far-future tech (here associated with mining dead rocks in space), and tense and terrific action sequences—including mass destruction and a collision in zero G, but all of it is centered around the sort of […]
Cyberpunk: the word evokes images of a neon-washed cityscape, corporations up to no good, cranial ports to access the ‘net, and protagonists who exist in shades of gray. Over the years, the genre has more or less fallen into a kind of rhythm, even as it updates its technology and morés with the times. But […]