Tag: dystopia

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Frostbite #1

The world is buried under ice and what’s left of humanity struggles to survive. The rich have their artificial suns and the poor tear each other apart for a few minutes of warmth. But hey, it could be worse, right? Of course it could. Click the jump for preview pages and a review of Vertigo’s

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Lost in Sci-Fi: Episode 17: Soylent Green

You can listen to this episode on our Lost In Sci-Fi channel at Anchor.fm! This week Elizabeth and Leland start talking about the sci-fi classic Soylent Green but the conversation devolves into talking about all sorts of terrible things that can happen to society in a dystopian future: poverty, ghettos, cannibalism, disease, etc. All the

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Jordan Pollock

PSX 2015 Preview: Randall (PS4)

Continuing the trend of interesting 2D-platformers, Randall, by developer We The Force, is a Metroidvania-style platformer that focuses more on the Metroid side of the genre. For those who don’t know, Metroidvania is a style of platformer that relies on gated progression and back-tracking. In other words, some areas in the game will be inaccessible until you discover abilities that

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Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering

It’s human nature to want to know what’s the point of something. What does it mean, where’s it going, why does it exist? This happens a lot when reading books; you try to figure out where the plot’s taking you, what’s the message in the end. Sometimes that’ll just frustrate you. Certainly it did for

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Books
llyzabeth

Review: Koko Takes a Holiday

I’ve been trying to get a few more 2014 books under my belt before New Year’s, and next on the list is Kierran Shea’s first novel, “Koko Takes a Holiday.” If you’re looking for a family friendly, feel-good, classy novel…you’d better go look somewhere else. But if you’re looking for a fun, violent, blood-and-gore sci-fi

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[E3 2014] Tom Clancy’s The Division is a Different Kind of Dystopia

We’ve know about Tom Clancy’s The Division for some time now. We’ve know it’s set in America, post-plague, in some very desperate times. We’ve known that you play as a member of the titular Division – a group of in-plain-sight heroes dedicated to maintain order in the chaos.  I don’t think any of us were on

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