Tag: space opera

A promotional image from the video game "Horizon: Forbidden West".

Video Game Review: “Horizon: Forbidden West”

February 11, 2023

Since Syzygy turned just turned five, let’s keep celebrating eco-apocalypse science fiction with another story anniversary: Horizon: Forbidden West, (HFW) which came out a year ago this month. Why has it taken me so long to review this video game? Living overseas with an old American Playstation, I had to wait months for a copy … More Video Game Review: “Horizon: Forbidden West”

A Brief History of How Stephen Hawking Inspired My Sci-Fi

March 14, 2018

The shiny black hardcover jacket winked in the sun, mysterious as a unit of dark matter. I lifted the book from the sale table outside Borders Books & Music and flipped its pages. Elementary particles…wormholes…the uncertainty principle…reading this before I head off to college will make me sound smarter when I get there, right? And … More A Brief History of How Stephen Hawking Inspired My Sci-Fi