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Back to the Future

February 4, 2008

John Crowley (Little, Big) has noticed that, in SF movies, the future’s been looking more and more like the past: “Brazil,” set ‘somewhere in the 20th Century’, isn’t really the future; like some of the Superman and Batman movies it’s set in a some alternative sorta-retro past or alternative present or generalized urban somewhen….I think… Continue reading »

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