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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Edge of Tomorrow
This movie has two titles and they’re both bad. At least the movie is good. Continue reading
Posted in Aliens, Film
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Time for End-of-Year Lists! We’re Doing Games, Because Books are for Dorks!
Enjoy a list of very good video games that you should play if you also like video games! Continue reading
Posted in Arbitrary Lists, Games
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The Dispossessed
Anarchy never sounds quite as cool as it did when I was fifteen. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Government, Post-Earth, Utopia
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A Clockwork Orange
Ya dang kids stop setting my lawn on fire! Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dystopia, Post Modernity
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Horizon: Zero Dawn
Game * Guerrilla Games * Post-Machine Apocalypse * 2017 Synopsis I’m glad I don’t have to worry about what constitutes a “game of the year.” I don’t have a Switch, which means that I’m not even distracted by the likes … Continue reading
The Visitor
Novel * Sheri S. Tepper * Fantasy Post-Post-Apocalypse * 2002 Synopsis I enjoy stories which take place after a hard reset of humanity. The immediate aftermath of an apocalyptic disaster are always going to be the more visceral experiences – … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Disaster, Dystopia
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Robocop
Film * Paul Verhoeven * Buying That for a Dollar Since * 1987 Synopsis Robocop is an important generational touchstone. I mean, yes, it’s a good movie, a sharp commentary on its time, and a rockin’ action flick, but it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Corporations, Film, Urban Decline
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Jesus’ Son
Short Stories * Denis Johnson * Personal Apocalypse * 1992 Synopsis People are fucked up. There, that’s pretty much the end of it. Enjoy the stories, everyone. Okay, that might be a bit of a glib dismissal, although it’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Drugs, Ennui, Urban Decline
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The Day After
Film * Nicholas Meyer * Good Old Fashioned Nukes * 1983 Synopsis When I was a teen, the town I lived in would annually test their civil defense sirens. Not because we were particularly worried about a nuclear attack in … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Nuclear
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