Martin Stellinga, Author at Martin Stellinga

Review: Logan

Logan is the final X-Men movie with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. For now, at least. It’s also the first one with an R-rating (17 years and over). And yes, it’s something else.

Judging climate change like we do slavery

Dutch Slavers — Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-war, 1619. Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images

Recently, I saw this (Dutch) comic about climate change. It depicts two politicians with remarks made about climate change, but they replaced ‘climate change’ with ‘slavery’. The results are… disturbing.

Review: Solo

Over forty years ago, George Lucas reluctantly gave the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: A New Hope to Harrison Ford, who was only helping out at a casting. Now, forty years later, another actor steps into Ford’s enormous shadow and takes up the Solo mantle…

Review: Ninefox Gambit

Have you ever heard of a calendrical heresy? Probably not, because it’s not really a thing, until you read Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.

Planetary formation

Last week, two protoplanets in another star system were directly imaged. That seems like a good excuse to talk about planetary formation.