Culture
Signed reviews of books, films, series and anime that take big ideas seriously, plus neutral source notes on the books and interviews behind the UAP record.
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![The Three-Body Problem: Contact Is the Switch [Spoilers]](/_astro/three-body-problem-cover.CEWO-jl3_Z1CNvPu.webp)
Book The Three-Body Problem: Contact Is the Switch [Spoilers] -
![Ghost in the Shell: The Signal That Asked for Asylum [Spoilers]](/_astro/ghost-in-the-shell-cover.DaKdHm7P_29z9hN.webp)
Film Ghost in the Shell: The Signal That Asked for Asylum [Spoilers] -
Book Origins of the Sphinx: Two Clocks, One Monument, and the Core Nobody Has Drilled -
Book Elizondo's Imminent, what the memoir documents and what it reports being told -
Book Sitchin's Wars of Gods and Men, the chronicle that ends in a nuclear strike -
Book The Hunt for Zero Point: The Anatomy of a Secret, and the Machine It Cannot Produce -
![Project Hail Mary: First Contact, Conducted Entirely in Physics [Spoilers]](/_astro/project-hail-mary-cover.Dn4ZN092_1DYg8r.webp)
Book Project Hail Mary: First Contact, Conducted Entirely in Physics [Spoilers] -
Book Corso's Day After Roswell, what the memoir claims and where each claim sits -
Book Lynn's Anunnaki Connection, what the book argues and where each layer sits -
Book Sitchin's Anunnaki Chronicles, what the reader argues and where each layer sits -
Book The Invisible College: The Control System Hypothesis at Fifty -
Book Dunn's Giza Power Plant, the machinist's case and where its numbers land -
Book Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, what the book argues and how each link has held -
![Stranger Things: Hawkins Was Told It Was an Earthquake [Spoilers]](/_astro/stranger-things-cover.DR85ZaRt_Tpiu3.webp)
TV Stranger Things: Hawkins Was Told It Was an Earthquake [Spoilers] -
Interview The ceiling and the countdown, what Jorjani claims across three and a half hours and where each claim rests -
Book LaViolette's Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, what the book claims and where its own evidence sits -
Book Closer Encounters: The Whole Fringe Canon, Argued at Full Confidence -
![Annihilation: The Contact Film That Refuses to Explain Itself [Spoilers]](/_astro/annihilation-cover.gTYCp208_cBs6C.webp)
Film Annihilation: The Contact Film That Refuses to Explain Itself [Spoilers] -
Book Coulthart's investigation, what In Plain Sight documents and where testimony outruns proof -
Book A Player, Not a Program: Rizwan Virk's Joyful, Generous Case That We Live Inside the Game -
![Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction: The Anime That Already Lived Through Disclosure [Spoilers]](/_astro/dead-dead-demons-cover.E7dIJhhz_ZhNCYT.webp)
Anime Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction: The Anime That Already Lived Through Disclosure [Spoilers] -
Book Vallée's last book, what Forbidden Science 7 documents and where it rests on faith -
![Akira: The Psychic-Powers Classic That Rhymes With the Real UFO Record [Spoilers]](/_astro/akira-cover.BxsrHJIo_2uWHqX.webp)
Film Akira: The Psychic-Powers Classic That Rhymes With the Real UFO Record [Spoilers] -
![Disclosure Day: Spielberg's Most Ufology-Literate Film [Spoilers]](/_astro/disclosure-day-cover.CU5I55F2_Z22bJTH.webp)
Film Disclosure Day: Spielberg's Most Ufology-Literate Film [Spoilers] -
Interview The lure and the quarterback, what Dan Farah says about how the covert UAP program worked -
Book Lacatski's last book, what Future Visions says about the Pentagon's covert UFO program