Ice Floes Wow

The Wow Climax

Whether highlighting the sentimentality at the heart of the Lassie franchise, examining the emotional experiences created by horror filmmakers such as Wes Craven, or discussing the emerging aesthetics of video games, these essays get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact.

Company of Adventurers

Mars is hard. It's always looking for new and exciting ways to kill you. If you're careful, stick to the plan, and your luck holds, maybe not today. But it will always be waiting and only needs to win once. It's also big, and it's very beautiful. It has mountains so high they stick up into space, and canyons that make the Grand Canyon look like something a kid scratched out with a stick. Every time you turn a corner, there's something new. And the sunsets, don't get the locals started about the sunsets. Whoever gets there first and manages not to die will own a little piece of it, and their children will inherit a planet. After twenty years, company colonists are getting the hang of it. It looks like they're going to make it. Unless someone else shows up and takes it from them...

Eucarion