Writer
As SFS’s Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. Cardinal has found his editorial duties at Steam-Funk Studios often reconnect him to parts of fandom he’d have otherwise overlooked. Andrew has DJed, catered, and run travel logistics in the goth scene as DJ Rasclin. Other credentials include staffing for Anime Central and work for the US Census Bureau. As the second of our Senior Editors, he advises on strategy for both The Unconventional and The Living Multiverse, remaining a steady guiding hand.
Articles
Unraveling Silken Threads–Series Conspectus
It’s about far more than merely the swords and sorcery that make up your favorite fictional universe. Join us for our inaugural look into the motives, tropes and ethics of various controversial speculative fictions, and the historic context of their presentation.
“The Last War” and The Great War
War: the very thought of it brings to minds untold horrors. War is unique in the history of man primarily because of its duality. At no time have so many men died for so little accomplishment.
The Anglicization of Middle-earth
A study of anglophile and ethnocentric narratives, given perceptions of racism in Arda, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, as seen in Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Simarillion.
Signature Showcase: Neil Gaiman
A study of the degree of moral relativism in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.
Vignettes of Fascism in Fiction
The road behind us and alternate history, the nature and usage of Nazis in fiction.
The Night’s Watch, Warders and the Citadel
Military academy influence on parts of A Song of Ice and Fire and Wheel of Time.
Signature Showcase: Gene Roddenberry
A study of the usage of the future as a form of revolutionary utopian optimism through Star Trek.
Fascist Tinted Glasses: The Man in the High Castle
A study of the contemporary politics of using Nazis in fiction, alternate history in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle.