Feminine desire is often ignored in sci-fi. Could that be changing?
The gun-slinging heroine of the mobile game Love and Deepspace, first released in 2024, lives on Earth in the year 2048. The planet is suffering from environment collapse and the reality-distorting effects of a spatial anomaly called the Deepspace Tunnel, which has appeared over the planet. The player follows the heroine in her work investigating the violent disruptions caused by the Deepspace Tunnel and as she becomes aware that she cannot trust her own memory. Parts of her thoughts have been tampered with or are missing entirely. In the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, K (Ryan Gosling) is a replicant agent – an artificial lifeform almost indistinguishable from humans – charged with hunting his own kind. K’s memories were made for him by humans to fabricate a sense of self. Yet the emotions he experiences are undeniably real. Both Love and Deepspace and Blade Runner 2049 explore the…
