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I think of 'Shrapnel' as the anti-'Star Trek.'
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Think I Think
Trek
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Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.
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Wonderful Way
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Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage.
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Damage
Fewer
Levels
Higher Levels
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Beyond 'Contact,' I think there's something compelling about 'District 9.'
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Compelling
Contact
District
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Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque.
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Iconic
Astronomer
Drew
Pioneer
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There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
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Danger
Ignorance
Increasingly
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We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.
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Appearance
Divided
Bringing
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American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.
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Sci Fi
Sentiment
Lately
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I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.
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Cosmos
Exposure
Secular
Households
Scientific
Viewing
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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Pitfalls
Look Responsibility People
Warn
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We have not been asking the serious questions about the future of our species, questions sci-fi regularly explores by showing us the best and worst of what could be.
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Sci Fi
Species
Regularly
Showing
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Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
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Awe Inspiring
Cosmos
Genuine
Gravity
Poignant
Reverence
Survival
Informed
Rarest
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British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks, Charlie Stross, Robert Charles Wilson, and Cory Doctorow.
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Sci Fi
Strikes
Wilson
Banks
Charles
Counterpart
Forward-Looking
Robert
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'Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.
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Hostile
Hypnotic
Unforgiving
Unsympathetic
Amidst
Desires
Heavens
Painfully
Warned
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It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.
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Astonishing
Beach
Creatures
Light Bulb
Bulb
Struck
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Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - check the masterful 'Twilight Zone' episode 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' for an example of how that might play out.
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Competent
Example
Maple
Monsters
Twilight
Zone
Alien
Check
Due
Divisions
Episode
Exploit
Street
Masterful
Reasonably
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Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.
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Evidence
Humility
Method
Pursue
Scientific Method
Dearly
Element
Scientific
Wherever
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For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
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Movie
Future
Science
Backwards
Fiction
Genre
Nostalgia
Science Fiction
Sells
Sequels
Series
Spending
Sure
Lately
Long-Running
Readers
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Here on Earth, we've found organisms that thrive in environmental conditions we would have once thought uninhabitable. The presence of these extremophiles suggests that life could potentially take hold on worlds other than our own.
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Environmental
Conditions
Organisms
Thrive
Potentially
Presence
Worlds
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'Shrapnel' is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it's not clean and optimistic. The haves are putting the screws to the have-nots. The story is about the last stand of the last free colony in the solar system.
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Optimistic
Clean
Colony
Solar System
Stand
Based
Last
Putting
Solar
System
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Bringing the astronaut's nightmare to life so vividly is a remarkable accomplishment but Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron want more than just the adrenaline ride - they're feeding our wonder and inviting us to think deeply about profound questions of existence.
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Accomplishment
Adrenaline
Astronaut
Feeding
Inviting
Nightmare
Profound
Remarkable
Bringing
Ride
Vividly
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My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world. He was a scholar, he studied history. He taught a class in critical thinking, and he was very, very aware of the directions we might go.
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Critical
Critical Thinking
Scholar
Studied
History Science Great
Aware
Deeply
Directions
Science History Great
Planetary
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Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.
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Awe
Blind
Blind Faith
Deeper
Important Questions
Maker
Pulled
Reached
Richer
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I'm thrilled to be working with the Science Channel. A chance to shine a light on the wonder and exciting possibilities of science with such a smart and talented team is a dream come true for me. It's very gratifying to me personally, and it's also a way to honor my family.
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Channel
Talented
Gratifying
Possibilities
Shine
Thrilled
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Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology - Good luck. If they're advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they're advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat.
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Chance
Space
Enormous
Good Luck
Hostile
Humans
Luck
Physiology
Sweat
Wipe
Advanced
Alien
Armed
Breaking
Cross
Distances
Passes
Superior
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