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Join writer and storyteller Damien Walter on an exploration of the world as seen through a science fiction lens.Damien Walter Arte Ciencia Ficción Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy

    Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy
    Apr 1 2026
    It's Scifi. It's Romance. It's Fantasy. It's SciMANtasy 😱 Let's see if we can make Gary an Amazon bestseller so he doesn't ask for his money back. 🔗👇 The Last Sysadmin in Sector 7 : a SCIMANTASY novel https://amzn.to/4lXiqjF # The Ultimate Male Pattern Fantasy ​What if the greatest science fiction dream isn't discovering alien life or saving the human race, but simply being left completely alone in a room to do math? ​Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary is a masterpiece of hard sci-fi engineering, but beneath the astrophage and the orbital mechanics lies a deeply comforting psychological trope. We are looking at the "Male Pattern Fantasy"—the idea that the ultimate hero is just an ordinary, highly competent guy who solves the universe's problems in absolute, blissful isolation (and somehow looks exactly like Ryan Gosling while doing it). ​Whether you find this trope to be a lovely, optimistic vision of human competence or a pathetic retreat from social reality, it is currently dominating modern science fiction.
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    27 m
  • The Matrix is the movie the Matrix makes to keep you in the Matrix

    The Matrix is the movie the Matrix makes to keep you in the Matrix
    Feb 22 2026
    The best way to understand the broken, crazed, indulgent filmography of the Wachowski’s is as a quest to make the Matrix movie the Matrix would never make. Time. Is money. And in the cold unfeeling eyes of Hollywood a “movie” is just a business strategy to convert two hours of your time into shareholder value.Continue reading "The Matrix is the movie the Matrix makes to keep you in the Matrix"
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    42 m
  • Star Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.

    Star Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.
    Jan 26 2026
    Get your COMMIE TREK tee here - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion Website - https://damiengwalter.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/DamienWalter Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/ Subscribe to the Science Fiction podcast feed for long-form commentaries on these video essays https://damiengwalter.com/podcast/ Follow Damien on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/damiengwalter.com
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    22 m
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