My favorite part about William Gibson’s writing is his world building. He is truly a visionary, an understatement about the guy who envisioned The Matrix. What kept me getting back to The Peripheral was Gibson’s unique take on how humans would eventually merge with technology and the res . . . Read more

I love the adaptations of graphic novels. I love contrasting and comparing the two art forms and seeing how they bring out completely different aspects of the same story. The comics are a collection of short stories whereas the series is closer to a novel. In the comics, the characters have very sin . . . Read more

I have always loved sci-fi. I love sci-fi more than I love actual science. Sci-fi is hardly ever about science. It is imaginative and fantastic. It is always about people. For exactly this reason, Dark is a fantastic sci-fi. In its three seasons, the lives of its handful characters get deeply and in . . . Read more

Let’s start with the obvious. Brad Pitt has managed to give the performance of a lifetime in Ad Astra. There are many scenes in the movie when he just emotes, there is nothing else going on in the entire frame, just him in focus with melancholic colors of space and science providing the stage. . . . Read more

Russian Doll is a modern day interpretation of the Groundhog Day. While the theme itself is quite cliché and played out, Russian Doll brings in Netflix’s awesome production to create a mostly enjoyable series. With eight short episodes this is basically the length of a long movie, perfect leng . . . Read more

"Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is." -Three Body Problem Of the Three Body Problem trilogy, I immensely enjoyed reading the first book and had to drag my way across the other two. The first book has a very beautiful structure. It is intensely gripping with very ho . . . Read more

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -Neuromancer I always knew that The Matrix had to have found it’s concepts from some book, it was too revolutionary a movie to have spawned out of nothing. And I finally found it - Neuromancer, the archetypal cyberp . . . Read more

"The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything." -Rendezvous with Rama I’m biased towards space novels. Reading about space travel and stars and planets and contemplating the huge vastness and emptiness always fills me with a sense of i . . . Read more

In the opening scene of Nolan’s Prestige, Michael Caine explains what a magic trick consists of - a pledge, a turn, and the hardest part - the Prestige. This is what Asimov’s stories are like. He starts with an ordinary world with something slightly extraordinary about it, takes you arou . . . Read more