Month: March 2023
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Four Decades Later
Written by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most famous science fiction works out there, and one I had heard about for years without ever experiencing myself. This past Christmas, I mentioned I would like to read it, and wound up with the whole 42nd anniversary box set, and…
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Signs of Change in the Gaming Industry
On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced that it planned on purchasing video game publisher and developer juggernaut, Activision-Blizzard. Activision-Blizzard is known for making franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. The deal involved an all-cash buyout of Activision’s stock, totaling to around $68.7 billion. When this deal was first announced,…
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Dystopian Fiction and the Generational Gap
Spoiler Warning: This article indiscriminate spoilers for the following books/series: 1984, Brave New World, The Giver, The Hunger Games, Red Rising, Divergent, The Maze Runner Among the various subgenres of science fiction is dystopian fiction. This narrow field deals in stories specifically focused on futuristic, but still possible, settings where some form of authoritarian…
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