Highway To Mars

Politics – Bioshock – Collectivism

  Collectivism is a funny thing.  We have given it a go in various forms with varying degrees of...

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Heroine Cast – Radioactive

We have only done one musical on Highway and certainly not devoted an episode to a song but after...

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Politics – Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country

There is something poetic in the title of the Undiscovered Country.  It speaks to pretty much...

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Politics – 1984

1984 is pretty much the top of the list when it comes to Politics and Science Fiction.  More than...

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Transhumanism – Ghost In the Shell

Ghost in the Shell is a very influential piece, having provided many pieces of motivation for the...

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Transhumanism – The Avengers

Okay, the Avengers is popcorn transhumanism but it is hella fun. While the superhero genre can’t...

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – So Long and Thanks for all the Fish

For the briefest of moments in the Hitchhikers Story, Arthur finds happiness and love.  It...

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Transhumanism – Genesis of the Daleks

The Daleks have been scary and ridiculous in equal measure. With their pepperpot shells and...

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Heroine Cast – Labyrinth

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and the plan to get the next heroine cast out hasn’t...

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Transhumanism – Star Trek – First Contact

It’s taken us a while to make it to Star Trek but at least we picked a good story with one of the...

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Transhumanism – Ayn Rand, Andrew Ryan, Bioshock and Zoltan Istvan

We are entering into a time when the world of Bioshock becomes less far fetched.  Genetic editing...

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Transhumanism – Gattaca

We enter the genetics part of Transhumanism with a movie that explores the moral concerns around...

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Transhumanism – The Presidential Election and Zoltan Istvan

Generally we talk Science Fiction on Highway to Mars but this week I found science fiction...

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Transhumanism – Limitless

Limitless reads like one of those dodgy clickbait adds on the internet – but it’s actually a lot...

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Making History – Star Trek

In the first of our new series on how science fiction influences history we look at Star Trek....

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Transhumanism – Lucy

We had to get to Lucy at some point. In my first review of Lucy I was quite critical of the movie...

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Rick and Stefan Reunion

“Reunion” kind of implies that Rick and I have met each other which is not quite the case.  We...

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Transhumanism – Transcendence

Transcendence brings to an end the main part of the Transhumanism section, though we have a good...

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – Tertiary Phase

I don’t get it.  How can a book I pretty much hate go to being a radio play I adore?  That is...

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Transhumanism – Avatar

Avatar is a funny movie.  It’s the most successful movie ever, yet nobody really talks about it....

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