Adaptive Organism: John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”, Howard Hawks’ “The Thing from Another World” and John Carpenter’s “The Thing”
In August 1938, Astounding Science-Fiction published a novella by John W. Campbell (then using his pen name, Don A. Stuart) about Antarctic researchers that discover a frozen alien ship and it’s pilot; a monster that assumes the shape and personality […]
Aliens vs. Predator (Comic) -> Aliens vs. Predator (Film)
Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2004 film Alien vs. Predator may have been the first time the two ferocious species met face to face on the big screen, but they had plenty of other face-offs in video games, novels and comic books. […]
Vector: Aliens -> Halo: Combat Evolved
In 2001, Bungie and Microsoft studios released Halo: Combat Evolved. Not only was it extremely well-received as an outstanding PC game, but it was also one of the main reasons behind the still-fledgling Xbox game system. It is still considered […]
Alien -> Prometheus
Although the story of the upcoming film Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to science fiction and the series he began, is still being kept under wraps (aside from the clues given in trailers, etc.), it has been known from the beginning that […]
Creative “Essay” – Savior of City 17 (text fixed)
My creative “essay” is a short story set in the Half-Life 2 universe at the time of the uprising in City 17 towards the end of the game (the “Anticitizen One” portion). One moment in particular that always stood out to me […]
Vector: Half-Life 2 -> Alien
Besides the obvious fact that Valve’s character-heavy first-person adventure game Half-Life 2 and Ridley Scott’s psychological haunted house space flick Alien both have plots centered around ordinary humans pitted against less-than-friendly extraterrestrial adversaries, they both have several parallels that lead us to […]
Vector: The Bible -> ‘Breaking Bad’
This one is a bit of a stretch, I admit, but I think it works on a thematic level well enough to make a solid connection. The tv series Breaking Bad, AMC’s runaway success about a terminally ill chemistry teacher […]
Vector: The Bible -> Battlestar Galactica
Ronald D. Moore and David Eick’s 2004-2009 remake of Glen A. Larson’s TV series Battlestar Galactica is littered with parallels and references to the Christian Bible. Released on the SyFy network (although I’m pretty sure it was still SciFi upon its premiere), […]
Holy Frak: The Bible and ‘Battlestar Galactica’
Science fiction is often notorious for focusing on hard, technical environments and characters while leaving little room for interpretations of religious ideologies or any sort of examinations of faith. However, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick’s 2004-2009 remake of Glen […]
Vector: Seven <- The Bible*
*I saw someone else use the backward arrow in their title, and I realized I should have done that for my previous vectors (Simulacra and Simulation and Ghost in the Shell), since they both pre-dated The Matrix. David Fincher’s 1995 […]
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