Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
by Max Brooks, John Amble, M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates · 14 May 2018 · 278pp · 84,002 words
refers to everything sci-fi as “Dungeons and Dragons”), the rest of the human race is pretty well versed on the saga that took place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” The appeal of Star Wars is international and multigenerational, and it’s got plenty of fans in uniform. Matt tested fiction as a tool in
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on the crises that it sees imminent in contemporary life. Christopher Coker, Can War Be Eliminated? With each Star Wars episode’s famous opening line—“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . .”—viewers are invited to witness a drama whose iconic characters display the same fundamental menu of fears, ambitions, motives, and loyalties shared by actors throughout
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neglect to look for major attacks in the cyber domain. Second, we can and should take seriously the idea that the Alliance employed hybrid warfare “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” Despite all the focus on hybrid, or gray-zone, warfare in recent years, it is not some newfangled creation, nor is it employed exclusively by
Humankind: Solidarity With Non-Human People
by Timothy Morton · 14 Oct 2017 · 225pp · 70,180 words
, Professor Brand intones, “Another galaxy.” One instantly wonders whether the movie they are all about to go and see is Star Wars, with its escapist “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” This is one instance in which escapism is politically charged within the film, and in a good way, because the “long time ago” and “galaxy
Wonders of the Universe
by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen · 12 Jul 2011
taken a very long time to do it. When we look at the afterglow of this explosion, we are looking at an event that happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. In fact, this light has been travelling towards us for almost the entire history of the Universe. GRB 090423 died over thirteen billion years ago
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty · 251pp · 86,553 words
better, and for worse, they would each in their own unique ways end up showing the movie business a new path forward. * * * It all started a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. When George Lucas’s Star Wars first stormed theaters on May 25, 1977, Hollywood had been caught napping, including that film’s own studio, 20th
But What if We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if It Were the Past
by Chuck Klosterman · 6 Jun 2016 · 281pp · 78,317 words
become the present, hence “present (future).” It’s kind of like the prologue to Star Wars, where we are told that the following events happened “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.” But the people in Star Wars shoot laser guns and travel at the speed of light, so we are forced to conclude that their past
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022
department is a huge computer chip–making machine that I first read about in 2020 in The Economist. This incredible machine could have come from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It was a huge rectangular box the height of a bus, and the outside, with white panels all around, gave no hint whatsoever what it
Nobody's Perfect: Writings From the New Yorker
by Anthony Lane · 26 Aug 2002 · 879pp · 309,222 words
the film teases the innocence away from him. Lady, there’s something in this movie. In a word, ignorance. MAY 10, 1999 THE PHANTOM MENACE A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, people made movies with people in them, and some of those movies made sense. Then something happened, and the people started to vanish from the
Bureaucracy
by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words
zone of pure fantasy, no different really than Middle Earth or Cimmeria. They might even, as with Star Wars, place the future in the past, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” This Future is, most often, not really a future at all, but more like an alternative dimension, a dream-time, some kind of technological Elsewhere
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
by Matthew Cobb · 6 Jul 2015 · 608pp · 150,324 words
ago.’6 Aside from the distinct lack of proof, this does not explain the origin of life at all – it simply puts the problem back a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.7 It is possible that life originated elsewhere in the Universe and came to Earth on a meteorite or a comet. However, that hypothesis does
Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman · 20 Nov 2012 · 307pp · 92,165 words
Factory,” Robert A. Freitas Jr. and William P. Gilbreath, AIAA, 1981 Image courtesy of Robert A. Freitas Jr. (www.rfreitas.com) In the future (or a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) machines will make machines. 3D printers are the first wave of a new generation of machines that will design, make, repair, and recycle other machines
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985
by Jordan Mechner · 26 Dec 2012 · 314pp · 46,664 words
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer · 15 Jan 2019 · 297pp · 69,467 words
Practical Ext JS Projects With Gears
by Frank Zammetti · 7 Jul 2009 · 602pp · 207,965 words
More Joel on Software
by Joel Spolsky · 25 Jun 2008 · 292pp · 81,699 words