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Sci-fi legend William Shatner has been quite active lately — releasing a new book, recording a Christmas album and going on tour with the 1982 film “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” to name a few things.
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In a widely-ranging discussion of sci-fi texts of the past and present, UC Berkeley lecturer Emily Carpenter and professor Namwali Serpell articulate representations of race and gender, discuss the ways that sci-fi reflects contemporary politics and offer interpretations of popular films.
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Author and UC Berkeley alumna Beth Barany uses her science fiction and fantasy stories to question gender roles and empower women.
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It makes sense, perhaps, that the first short story Dick ever sold in 1953 was entirely based on the utterly mundane situation of a Berkeley neighbor’s dog barking at the garbage man.
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Something in her is dangerous, and if she is capable enough to bring robots into self-awareness, she can take it away.
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dear you i have escaped the gravity of our world the thrusters are no longer firing i depend on the word of other men who linger in dark rooms twirling pencils atop arcane calculations watching my ship ascend to the stars there is no seattle in space vacant skies
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Somehow, all of this could have been forgiven — and, dare I say, enjoyed — if the film actually leaned into its campiness.
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Besson is a master of CGI vision, more deserving of indulging in the form than possibly any other director working today — he’s known for the absurd, and with CGI you can easily make the absurd out of pixels.
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Neutrinos are subatomic particles produced in many nuclear reactions — and supernovae — and, as a fun fact, they are so noninteractive they can tunnel straight through a solid lightyear of lead as if it were empty space. A lightyear is really big. So the fact that the starship in
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Sci-fi, through its pushing of the boundaries of how real and computer-generated imagery can be synthesized, has a responsibility to get it right.
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