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Sci-Friday: In Praise of Transformers

Sci-Friday: In Praise of Transformers

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Welcome back to Sci-Friday! Some 20 writers on the Substack platform are participating this week. This means that a lot of smart folks are sharing sci-fi recommendations! I’ll tag those folks so you can check out their work at the end of this piece.

Today, I want to bring you on a bit of a nostalgic journey with me to a very important movie in my childhood: Transformers: The Movie. I’m going to focus on the 1986 film I saw in the theater at age 10, then again at age 11, and then again on video several years (and then, several decades) later.

If you want to go back and check out some of my previous sci-fi recommendations, here are Time Travel Paradoxes, Five Great Sci-Fi Reads, Five Dystopian Future Films, Five Sci-Fi Comedies, and my Favorite Sci-Fi Shows ever.

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