Sci-fi Saturday Week 18: The Caterpillar's Question

Posted on Sat 06 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with sci-fi saturday, asimov, hal 9000, douglas adams, alice in wonderland, arrival, star trek, lewis carroll, philip k dick, contact, frequency, week018, podcasts

Sci-fi Saturday Week 18: The Caterpillar's Question

Week 18 brought six articles and one question asked by a caterpillar that ran through all of them: Who are you? Asimov appeared in three articles across three separate bodies of work. HAL 9000 reappeared in a completely different register, which he does not tend to allow. Alice in Wonderland made its column debut in a Florida Man confession about liability, instruction chains, and a fire hydrant that wasn't in the model.


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Sci-fi Saturday Week 8: The Week of the Genuine Article

Posted on Sat 28 March 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with scifi saturday, philip k dick, westworld, blade runner, star trek, douglas adams, do androids dream, ghost in the shell, firefly, contact

Sci-fi Saturday Week 8: The Week of the Genuine Article

Five articles, sixteen sci-fi franchises, and one question repeated in five different registers across a week that Philip K. Dick apparently owned retroactively.


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