Essay

How ‘Horta-nomics’ can save Star Trek’s socialist utopia from the horrors of the dilithium mines

By Edmund Schluessel | Jun 19, 2020 | Essay, Television

This moment — Spock’s mind-meld with the Horta in “Devil in the Dark” -- is the instant when the socialist Federation of "Star Trek: The ...

What Poe can teach us about the pandemic

By Joshua Wilson | May 1, 2020 | Books, Essay

But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted ...

‘Dark Phoenix’ and the persistence of Jean Grey

By Joshua Wilson | Jun 15, 2019 | Comics, Essay, Interview, The Fabulist Reviews

Temptation, manipulation and gaslighting can’t keep Marvel’s mutant goddess down She’s a goddess of fire and destruction, dangerous and beautiful, the chosen vessel of an ...