Leonard Koury

  • Carrying the Fire: What The Road Taught Me About Protecting My Children

    A father reflects on The Road, the small decisions that protect our children, and the difficult balance between teenage independence and parental responsibility.

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  • What Dune and Red Rising Teach About Power

    Science fiction is often described as a genre about the future, but its greatest stories are rarely just about technology for the future alone. At their core, many science fiction novels explore power; who possesses it, how it is maintained, and what happens when people decide to challenge it. Few modern science fiction series examine…

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  • Why I Chose, Find the Pattern. Tell the Story.

    Every story begins with a question. Not simply what happens next, but why does it happen at all? The phrase “ Find the Pattern. Tell the Story”, which sits at the center of my website is the central focus of all my writing. The older I get, the more I notice that life is built…

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  • Why Science Fiction is Really About Us

    Science fiction is often treated like an escape hatch. We think of starships, distant planets, artificial intelligence, alien civilizations, and futures so far removed from our daily lives that they seem to belong somewhere else entirely. Yet the best science fiction has never really been about somewhere else. It has always been about us. That…

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