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Adrift in the Infosphere
Los Angeles, California, USA
Chris Lampton is a freelance writer who has long been fascinated by both science fiction and computer games.
Twitter: @ChrisLampton
Sherlock Who? The Brilliance of Steven Moffat
I was never a fan of the original Doctor Who. Maybe I would have been if I’d given it half a chance — a science-fiction-writer friend of mine was so...
Why “The Watchers on the Wall” Was the Best Episode of Game of Thrones Yet
Go read or at least glance at this article from Wired before you read what follows. Don’t worry. I’ll still be here when you get back. Now, I wish somebody...
Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Age of Multidimensional Media
It wasn’t until I saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the last six episodes of the first season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that I realized just how radical...
Video Games as Story, Video Games as Life: Part Three
So where were we? In the first two parts of this series on video games as virtual reality, I talked about how in 1981 I’d had a vision — not...
Video Games as Story, Video Games as Life: Part Two
(This is Part Two of an article about the evolution of computer games into a form of virtual reality, largely as witnessed by the fanatic computer gamer who writes this...
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Situations: The Walking Dead
When asked why I enjoy genre fiction, by which I mean fiction that wouldn’t be put on the literary or even straight fiction shelf at the bookstore but on shelves...
Video Games as Story, Video Games as Life: Part One
(This is Part One of a multi-part article on computer games as pioneering attempts at virtual reality, all as seen from the viewpoint of a young and then not-so-young gaming...
Batman, Lara Croft & Arrow: The Christopher Nolanization of Pop Culture
We all have something in our childhood years that we feel nostalgic about or, if we’re not quite old enough yet to get past the urge to reject our childhood...
To Build a Fire in Space: Gravity
There’s a certain kind of story that I’ve always loved, though you don’t see it very often. It’s usually short, tightly written and breathtakingly intense. It’s the one where someone...
Trailer Scenes: Why the Parts of Some Movies Are Greater than the Whole
In some comment thread I was reading recently about Joss Whedon’s movie version of The Avengers, a commenter pointed out that some scenes in the film looked like they came...
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