Mars: Boldly Going Where Lots Of Science Fiction Has Gone Before

March 9, 2012Erik Kain

Alyssa Rosenberg says there’s no reason so many of our science fiction movies should be set on . It’s just a blank slate for an alien planet – any alien planet – and too few of the films and novels that use it only do so as a prop rather than as a real place. John […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.