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MELANIE ROUSSEL FICTION
Melanie Roussel
Apr 26, 20192 min read
Sophia the Robot and Westworld
The two questions we're going to have to answer are; can A.I. have rights? And is A.I. alive?
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 23, 20193 min read
Types of Time Travel
Time Machines, Space, Wormholes, Popsicles and the grand design.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 19, 20193 min read
Star Trek's Q
Q is both a character and the name of a fictional race in Star Trek and he's the embodiment of Authur C. Clark's Third Law.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 18, 20192 min read
Planet of the Apes - the first franchise
Did you know that Planet of the Apes was a novel first? In 1963, French author Pierre Boulle wrote La Planète des singes.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 16, 20193 min read
The Nuclear Influence
The 1950s was the era of duck and cover. It was also a time when sci-fi came along in leaps and bounds.
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Melanie Roussel
Apr 1, 20193 min read
Real-World Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is probably one of my favourite sci-fi subjects and surprisingly, almost always in the news these days.
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Melanie Roussel
Mar 25, 20192 min read
Steampunk: Origins
First post in my series about all things steampunk!
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Melanie Roussel
Mar 18, 20192 min read
Review: 1984 by George Orwell
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
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Melanie Roussel
Mar 11, 20192 min read
Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next is a Lit-Tech agent, who spends her time tracking literature forgers, hoping for a promotion which is unlikely to come.
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Melanie Roussel
Feb 18, 20193 min read
Science Fiction Predicts the Future
Let's not beat around the bush. It's true. Science fiction predicts the future.
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Melanie Roussel
Feb 8, 20193 min read
Uhura to Guinan - Whoopi Goldberg and Star Trek
In a recent interview, Whoopi Goldberg told a story about Star Trek I'd never heard before.
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Melanie Roussel
Feb 4, 20192 min read
The Orville S1 & S2 (Review)
The Orville is the most cross-genre series I've ever seen
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Melanie Roussel
Jan 19, 20194 min read
Donnie Darko vs The Twilight Zone "Ring-a-Ding Girl"
What does Donnie Darko have in common with the Twilight Zone? And it's not just their surrealism.
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Melanie Roussel
Oct 30, 20184 min read
The War of the Worlds Panic
This is one of those monumental historical gaffs we've all heard of.
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Melanie Roussel
Oct 14, 20186 min read
5# Super villains you were actually rooting for
It's a trope as old as time. Why did Sauron, Doctor Doom, Pinky and the Brain and Audrey II want to take over the world? Well, because...
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Melanie Roussel
Oct 8, 20182 min read
Sigourney Weaver: Queen of Sci-Fi
Sigourney Weaver, the Queen of Sci-Fi! Sigourney Weaver was the first actor to receive the Best Actress Oscar nomination for a sci-fi...
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Melanie Roussel
Sep 17, 20184 min read
Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
The original story of Rick Deckard, android bounty hunter. How does it fair after all these years?
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 25, 20183 min read
The Great Moon Hoax
On the 25th August 1835, The Sun published the first of six articles announcing the discovery of life on the moon.
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Melanie Roussel
Aug 13, 20182 min read
'Glass' promises a different kind of superhero
Who else is looking forward to a different sort of superhero movie?
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Melanie Roussel
Jul 21, 20183 min read
Review: 13 Steps to Evil – How to Craft Superbad Villains by Sacha Black
Do you need help to craft your villains? Do you find your bad guy lacks a certain something? Are they bad, but not quite evil? This is a...
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