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<i>World on a Wire</i>: Smoke and Mirrors in Paranoid Unreality

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Science Fiction Film Club

World on a Wire: Smoke and Mirrors in Paranoid Unreality

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Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine exchange a significant look during an exorcism on the London Tube in Dead Boy Detectives.
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Dead Boy Detectives

Dead Boy Detectives Make a Case for a Cute Gay Afterlife

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Left: Yoda using the Force in a scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back; Right: Spock holding a punch card in a scene from Star Trek: The Original Series
Featured Essays

Let’s Start a Fight: Are Science Fiction and Fantasy the Same?

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Ironheart in a scene from Babylon 5 "Mind War"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Mind War”

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Louis and Lestat in an image from Interview With the Vampire
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Interview with the Vampire

How Interview With the Vampire Remixed Its Source Material Into a New Kind of Classic

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Owen and Maddy in I Saw the TV Glow
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I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow Is a Meditation On Becoming That Will Haunt You

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Burnham sits with the leader of a pre-warp society in a scene from Star Trek: Discovery “Whistlespeak”
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Star Trek: Discovery

The Not-So-Amazing Race — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Whistlespeak”

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(L-R): Crosshair, Omega, and Batcher in a scene from "STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH"
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star wars: the bad batch

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Gave Us an Ending No One Expected

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Images of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) in Poor Things and The Female (Scarlett Johansson) in Under the Skin
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The SF Path to Higher Consciousness

Poor Things and Under the Skin Try to Make Sense of Sensuality

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Jennifer Jason Leigh in a scene from eXistenZ
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Science Fiction Film Club

eXistenZ: Sex and Video Games and Gooey, Indescribable Things

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Joker the Harlequin (Vera Drew) waits backstage for her big debut dressed as a parody of another Joker in The People's Joker.
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The People's Joker

The People’s Joker Re-Mixes and Re-Mx-es Our Modern Myths with Sheer Trans Joy

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G'Kar in a scene from Babylon 5 “The Parliament of Dreams”
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Parliament of Dreams”

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic.”

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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