• Rendezvous With Rama

    Sometimes you need to revisit the foundational books of your youth just to see how you both have aged. Listening to the audiobook of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama felt a little like traveling back in time to the 1970s, the last time I read that classic tale. I wondered how well it would compare to my memories. I wondered if it would hold up. Of all the old…

  • Cow

    Copyright 2005 E.W. ParrisDigital photograph.

  • The End of Cliche Street

    I’ll confess to having zero respect for J.J. Abrams. It began with the final episodes of LOST and the clear admission that they never had a clue how they were going to end the thing. It was made worse when he said this in a live interview: Bear in mind, he was promoting Star Trek, a film he produced and directed. His esteem took another hit when he admitted to…

  • Woman in Scarf 2

    Copyright 2022 E.W. Parris Digital portrait.

  • Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

    The two phrases that always come to mind when considering The Odyssey are “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” and “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” The latter would have negated the former. If those hapless Trojan gatekeepers had only peered into that horse’s mouth, they could have saved the day. But we are here to discuss the merits of Christopher Nolan’s epic bit of cinema, The Odyssey. I…

  • Whimsy

    Procreate sketch of Whimsy from TrueRef, a site that provides licensed photo reference for artists. Copyright 2026 E.W. Parris

SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

E.W. Doc Parris

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