Jared Axelrod


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Is It Better To Be Feared Or Respected?

Robert Downey Jr, as weapons manufacturer Tony Stark, poses that question in the visceral opening to IRON MAN. Stark goes on to say that you can have both, and indeed, that’s been the American Way since we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. This summer’s other cinematic offering from Marvel Comics, […]

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

It’s What Philo Farnsworth Would Have Wanted

At the first sci-fi convention I was a guest at, I spoke at length about how the new generation of sci-fi authors were more realistic then their processors. A lot of this had to do with cumulative knowledge, sure, but also from a post-modern sensibility of taking basic sci-fi tropes and turning them inside […]

Thursday, December 20th, 2007