A national emergency; internet for the people

Weird-ass sci-fi; bloody hands; our dark present

Vaulting magma; 70mm in PDX; something completely unknown

Wizards; Satan; how to start an interstellar revolution 

Glimmering blobs; super ninjas; the Swedish mafia

A selection of work at The Believer, StarTrek.com, WIRED, Reactor, io9, The Stranger, the Portland Mercury, and more.

Erik Henriksen's journalism portfolio

Nobody wanted Blade Runner. 1982’s box office belonged to E.T. and Rocky III. Audiences shrugged when the dark, dour Blade Runner hit theaters; even the critics who gawped at the film’s baroque visuals tore apart everything else. “Science-fiction…

There are moments of strange and genuine creepiness; there are jarring sights that, without a single word, evoke hundreds of years of history; there’s a desolate ache that makes the future seem both beautiful and horrible.

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