Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Athena Factor by W. Michael Gear

by John Holt

April 10th, 2007

In The Athena Factor W. Michael Gear explores the compelling and in many ways horrifying world of biotech engineering, principally in the form of DNA research and manipulation. While this book is fictional, what the author describes is not.

This article is filed under Fiction Reviews, Medicine, Movies, Science, Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Fahrenheit 451: Avatar of the New Man

by Pedro Blas Gonzalez

March 26th, 2007

Francois Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 begins with a striking narration of the film’s credits. The premise is simple: talk becomes the natural medium in an illiterate state. When the firemen, that is, the book burners, arrive at a high rise with orders to burn books we are immediately struck by the stark and vulgar aesthetics of the buildings that are so typical in totalitarian countries – globs of spiritless, unimaginative, state-commissioned modernism.

This article is filed under Classics, Fiction Reviews, Movies, Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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