Tag: Space Colonization
This tag gathers work built on space colonization — stories and films set in the habitats, stations, generation ships, and settled worlds of a spacefaring humanity. It spans original fiction, including the planetary chapters of the Peacekeeper timeline, alongside curated film coverage. The focus is the human reality of living off Earth, not just the hardware. The collection grows as further work is added.
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Moonraker (1979)
1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism. -
Lightyear (2022)
Lightyear is the Pixar feature framed as the in-universe movie that made Andy from Toy Story want a Buzz Lightyear action figure. Angus MacLane directed... -
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek film and one of the foundational science fiction films of the 1980s. Nicholas Meyer directed. Jack... -
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) — Review
James Gunn's farewell with substantive Rocket Raccoon backstory, the High Evolutionary's dark register, the Phase 5 exception. At 6/10. -
Films With the Best Worldbuilding
Twenty films that build worlds you believe in before anyone explains them — from Blade Runner's environmental history to Princess Mononoke's moral complexity. Six core worldbuilding techniques extracted from the best in cinema, with craft lessons fiction writers can apply immediately. -
Modern Movie Slop
Twenty-one films that demonstrate every way contemporary Hollywood goes wrong — franchise necromancy, prestige self-indulgence, IP strip-mining, and the Disney live action remake program that has been telling audiences their money is welcome and their taste is not. With craft notes on what fiction writers can learn from each failure. -
Films Every Fiction Writer Should Study
Twenty films chosen not for being the best but for being the most instructive — each one demonstrating a specific craft technique with enough clarity that a fiction writer can extract the lesson and apply it immediately. From Chinatown's tragic structure to Parasite's genre pivots, this is the curriculum no MFA teaches. -
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — Review
2001 was a genuine achievement when it was released in 1968 and it remains technically remarkable today. Kubrick built a visual language for space that influenced every serious science fiction film… -
Blade Runner (1982) — Review
The theatrical cut of Blade Runner — with Deckard's voiceover narration intact — is the correct version of this film. That position is unfashionable. The later cuts, particularly the Final Cut,… -
The Rock War
A fourteen-second radio gap. A tumbling asteroid in the wrong place. Three dead on a survey ship. The belt's first war lasted nine hours and set a precedent that echoed for millennia.