One of the most portentous suggestions in The Last Jedi, abandoned in The Rise of Skywalker, was Luke Skywalker’s hint that his Force Ghost would haunt...
It’s prime cold and flu season, which means many of us are at home re-familiarizing ourselves with the workstation known as the sickbed. This has two...
It’s an odd feeling when your own science fiction catches up with you. A decade away I wrote a short story about a kind of Artificial...
Pop quiz: What’s the most popular meat in Europe and Asia? No, it’s not beef; that’s just the most popular meat in the U.S. It’s pork,...
It’s been a hectic five years of Star Wars filmed entertainment, but the dust has finally settled. Time to take stock of what we’ve seen, and...
“Remove everything that has no relevance to the story,” wrote Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. “It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.” You may...
Sure, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is cute and all, and millions of so-called “Reylo” fans have forgiven his crimes because he ended up redeemed by Rey...
This post discusses the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. You’ve been warned. “I hope she’s just an ordinary person. Because then she’s me.”...
There’s an old parlor game called Consequences. In its most advanced form, you write a paragraph on a sheet of paper, fold the paper over leaving...
Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. When Apple unveiled its Smart Keyboard Folio alongside its latest and...
