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Science Fiction and Fantasy

American vs. British SF, Revisited

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 1, 2010 @ 12:22 am Aristotelian Liberalism

A while back I published a blogpost here about the individualist American strain of SF and the more cosmological perspective of the British strain. I just published and expanded and revised version at The Libertarian Standard, working in more explicit libertarian observations.

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm (Austrian) Economics

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court‘s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book. I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of [...]

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My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 12, 2009 @ 11:20 am Aristotelian Liberalism

The “final” issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies is finally available online, although it looks like there will be one more final issue for all the other accepted but unpublished articles. This is the Atlas Shrugged Symposium issue, the last issue edited by Roderick Long, and I’m proud to say it includes an article [...]

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Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 26, 2009 @ 12:11 pm (Austrian) Economics

Cory Doctorow recently announced an experiment to prove that giving away free ebooks works. Michael Stackpole responded with a deconstruction of Cory’s experiment. He makes a number of good points about the experiment, though I think he comes off unnecessarily harsh on Cory personally. And one gets the impression that he feels threatened by the [...]

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John C. Wright’s Austrian Anaylsis of the Financial Crisis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 27, 2008 @ 1:34 pm (Austrian) Economics

At least one science fiction author has a pretty sound grasp of economic theory and history, and of the current financial crisis. Ludwig von Mises over half a century ago proved, beyond a shadow of doubt, that a little intervention in one sector of the economy creates an incentive for a lot of intervention in [...]

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Will IP be the death of the Watchmen movie?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 19, 2008 @ 3:02 pm Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bad news, folks. Fox is attempting to use IP laws to kill Warner’s upcoming Watchmen movie. No, they’re not trying to get a share of the profits as is common practice. They’re actually trying to block it. Bastards.

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Movie Review: Cloverfield, with Star Trek XI Teaser Trailer

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 26, 2008 @ 10:52 pm Fiction Reviews

I’ll keep this review brief like the last. It’s a monster movie thriller, set in New York City, filmed in a Blair-Witch-home-movie style. We catch glimpses of the monsters once in a while. Mostly we are bombarded by images and sounds of their handiwork. The movie starts off with a going-away party thrown for some [...]

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Movie Review: Children of Men

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 26, 2008 @ 10:01 pm Fiction Reviews

I’m finally getting around to reviewing a movie I saw for the first time on dvd a couple of weeks ago. I’ll keep this brief. Children of Men was an interesting dystopian film set in a near-future fascist Britain. The country has traded freedom for “security,” has closed its borders to immigrants and systematically rounds [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm (Austrian) Economics

…because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it from me to disagree that Marx was wrong about [...]

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A Catholic Defends The Golden Compass

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 13, 2008 @ 11:40 pm Religion

…against ignorant critics. “Why attack ‘Compass’ but not C.S. Lewis?” by Jonathan D’Ambrosio (rogerebert.com Letters) My own two cents: How many of you who denounced and/or boycotted the movie have actually read the book? How can you honestly criticize that which you have not read or seen?

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