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Tag: alien
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Between Gods and Beasts
Between Gods and Beasts is a fanfiction that was the result of an extended practice of lucid dreaming. This story is a Divine Comedy-esque exploration of the world of Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels and a morality tale of the dangers of fan devotion.
Written between 2019-2020
View the story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18192500/chapters/43033124
Related artwork:
Covenant Minute 32
In which I am joined by Curtis Bloes of Time Bandits Minute to discuss novelisations, and just what exactly is a “sound”?
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Citations
Spoiler study enjoyment. (2011, August 11). The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/spoilers-study/
Find my old podcast The Book Was Better here:
Covenant Minute 23
In which I am joined by Rob of the Great Escape Minute, and we discuss how futuristic technology in science fiction isn’t so futuristic anymore, spooky hidden details, and do Engineers see in sound?
Find Rob at the Great Escape Minute, he’s doing good work over there. I love this movie and he’s finding all sorts of details I never noticed:
Covenant Minute 18
In which I am joined for the last time, for now, by Duncan Shields and we discuss Ridley Scott’s ego, future relationships with AI, and the importance of format and structure for effective storytelling, maybe the Alien prequels should have been a TV series?
Covenant Minute 14
In which I discuss Oram, Ridley Scott’s cinematography, and compare this scene between film, book and script.
Covenant Minute 13
In which I discuss the ways we remember the dead across cultures, and how reflections, photographs and videos have changed the way we perceive ourselves, other people and time itself.
Continue reading
Covenant Minute 11
Covenant Minute 10
In which I discuss Craig Green’s costumes, anti-gravity and read from the novelisation.
Covenant Minute 09
In which I talk about babies, generation starships, and neutrinos.
Citations
Crowl, A., Hunt, J., & Hein, A. M. (2012). Embryo Space Colonisation to Overcome the Interstellar Time Distance Bottleneck. JBIS, (65), 283-285. https://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2012.65.283
Edwards, L. (2010, January 21). Humans were once an endangered species. Phys.org – News and Articles on Science and Technology. https://phys.org/news/2010-01-humans-endangered-species.html
Morber, J. (2017, April 26). Should we study human embryos beyond 14 days? PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/14-day-rule/
Neutrino Bursts. (2001). Science, 294(5548), 1793. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/294/5548/1793.2.full
Raised by wolves analysis – SE01 EP01 – Studio Yutani [Video]. (2020, September 12). YouTube. https://youtu.be/V-g0fP7NZS4
Shaffer, M. L. (1981). Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience, 31(2), 131-134. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/31/2/131/223836?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Stoppler, M. C. (n.d.). Embryo vs. fetus: The stages of pregnancy. MedicineNet. https://www.medicinenet.com/embryo_vs_fetus_differences_week-by-week/article.htm
Turner, B. (2015, March 12). Are cheetahs clones of each other? HowStuffWorks. https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/are-cheetahs-clones-of-each-other.htm
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