Mark’s Essays on Science Fiction at Clarkesworld Magazine

• Cinema 2.0:  The Future of Movie Making?

• Spaceships, Time Paradoxes and Duct Tape:  The Joys Of Independent SF Film

• Life After Quatermass:  Hammer Films’ ’60s Science Fiction

• Foundation and Reality:  Asimov’s Psychohistory and Its Real-World Parallels

• The Great Leap Sideways:  SF and Social Media

• Aliens, Robots, Spaceships and . . . Popsicles?  SF on American Radio, Then and Now

• A Sympathy of Light and Shadow:  Science Fiction, Gothic Horror and How They Met

• Flash Gordon, Cardboard Space Stations, and Zero Gravity Sex:  Why Science Fiction Isn’t Always to Blame

• What in the World Do They Want, Anyway?  The Myth of the Friendly Alien

• “Fans Are Slans”:  A Study in Campbellian Influence

• You Wouldn’t Be Reading This If It Weren’t For Buck Rogers

• The Age of the Excessive Machine:  Psychedelic SF, On-Screen and Off

• Méliès to Bonestell:  Relevancy and Realism in Cinematic Science Fiction

• Kubrick to Scott: Relevancy and Realism in Cinematic Science Fiction

• Cut, Fold, and Conquer the Universe: The Best Models in the Galaxy

• Science Fiction and the Fall of the Evil Empire

• Why Science Fiction Detective Stories Aren’t Impossible

• Metallic Mayhem in the Movies: Giant Mecha, Then and Now

• Melon Farmers! Science Fiction Stumbles on the Way to the Theater

• It Came From the Garage! Technology, Film, and the Guy Next Door

• But Is It Art? Science Fiction that Isn’t Really Science Fiction

• Separated at Birth? Occultism, Science Fiction, and Why People Can’t Tell Them Apart

• RAY GUNS, ROBOTS AND SPACESHIPS, OH MY! THE BIRTH OF SCIENCE FICTION TOYS

• BOXTOPS, SECRET RINGS, AND SPACE HELMETS: THOSE BRAVE SPACEMEN OF THE VIDEOWAVES

• “I CAN BUILD IT!” TOM SAID INVENTIVELY: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE SIX TOM SWIFTS

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