Science fiction Archives - Martin Stellinga

The Voice of Unreason

Do you have Siri on your iPhone, or Google Assistant on your Samsung Galaxy? You may even have a Google Home or Amazon Alexa in your living room. Machine learning at its best!

Ever wonder who else is listening in?

The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is here! It’s the Eleventh movie in the franchise — thirteenth if you count the Ewok movies, but let’s not.

I watched it, and… well, I have things to say, of course.

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.

Star Trek: Discovery revisited

Last year I wrote about the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. To summarize: I hated it with a vengeance. Then season two hit Netflix.

The curious case of the see-through fish

Above is a picture of a deep sea fish called the Mariana snailfish. This fish lives at 8 kilometers deep, or roughly 5 miles, and is transparent. It got me thinking about science fiction.