A cerebral streak can become suffocatingly sober even in smart science fiction.
Sometimes the political action is explicit, as in the smart, scathing fiction of Kiran Desai, but some of the most startling work sticks closer to the intimacy of experience.
WRITING smart light fiction is a thankless art; as with the best kinds of dancing, the point is to make it look easy no matter how much effort goes into it.
As is the case with "Lost Girl," as well, there's a strong thread of female empowerment, which, on "Killjoys," sometimes involves pregnant handmaidens kicking ass (Reason #847 I love smart science fiction). .
They include boomers who may have childhood memories of President Kennedy, the space race and everything else we have been reminded of or come to appreciate during the first 6 ½ seasons of Mad Men and Millennials who likely know nothing about any of it (education being what it is today) but nevertheless appreciate smart science-fiction adventure in any form.
Popular Mechanics has an article on their website that argues the rise of Comic-book movies have resulted in a decline of "smart" science-fiction (sci-fi presumably based on "real" science, as opposed to the "comic" science of gamma rays, etc).
"Franzen likes his fiction smart and larky, with glimpses of scary depths".
These shadow presences announce that Franzen likes his fiction smart and larky, with glimpses of scary depths and a flirtatious, on-and-off relationship with realism.
Director Vincenzo Natali has for years been creating smart little science fiction movies such as Cube and Cypher, and with its reliable cast of Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, the more healthily budgeted Splice was intended to be his breakthrough.
A smart therapist design fiction – a fully automated smart home similar to the one portrayed in the Robot & Frank sci-fi film (2012) and a new type of specialist fully equipped to fix the array smart goods and "program" human behaviour, to further support independent living for older people.
