TIME MACHINE: Past Popular Posts
Take a trip back and see what the buzz is from last week and last month. Special Note: Comments are still closed on the SF piece.
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“Will people be in costume?” How mainstream media sees SF fans.
Maybe it’s time for fans to relax about how the mainstream media sees us. We do sort of rule the world.
The Artful Collector: Where are our Art Critics?
Criticism is commonplace in the music industry, in film, and in the world of “fine art”. Shouldn’t we have that kind of critic in our field of collecting, too?
Website Review: Star Wars dot com
For fans of classic space opera, one of the most iconic movie franchises ever produced in the genre is arguably that of the Star Wars saga. Not surprisingly, one of the most informative sites on the web pertaining to all that is Star Wars is the aptly named www.starwars.com.
Fred and Me
“It is rare that someone who you first come to know as an icon becomes a human and a friend, and that is what happened with Fred in the years that I’ve known him
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 31)
independently publishing your stories yourself
Bundling Ebooks With Print Versions
What is really needed is the ability to bundle ebooks with print books regardless of where the print book is purchased.
Film Review: The Colony
I wasn’t overly impressed with the film. I had expected a half-decent SF movie, and what I got was maybe a quarter decent.
More Science Fiction Poetry Awards – The Rhysling Award
The Rhysling Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s award for poetry in two length categories
Anime roundup 9/13/2013: Cut Day
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family lays bare a dastardly plot, Gatchaman Crowds creeps out its local viewers, and more!
We are a Starfaring Species
It’s a first giant step, perhaps preparing a humongous leap for an entire species.
Interview with Pat Mills, Founder of 2000AD
Over four decades Pat Mills has been a major force in keeping the British comics industry alive. I caught up with him to chat about the reappearance of one of his most enduringly popular characters, the Celtic barbarian, Sláine.
What the %&*# is Perry Rhodan?
Perry Rhodan is a weekly German science fiction pulp magazine series that has run uninterrupted since 1961. That translates into over two thousand five hundred issues released so far not counting reprints, books and spinoffs. Lets let that sink in for a moment.
¿Qué está Pasando en AS? Literatura del Género versus “Mainstream”
Further explorations – and personal experience – with the genre-mainstream divide
News That Won’t Wait For Sunday: Aurora Awards
One of our contributors is up for an Aurora Award and voting ends tomorrow!
El Güije, el cagüeyro, la tatagua y otros seres de la mitología cubana
Examples of Cuban mythological creatures and their myths.
Carniculture in Science Fiction and Real Life
Like going on a brewery tour, except at this farm, the vats are full of meat.
Embracing Dragon Age’s Source Material
(The game’s) unvoiced goal is to revive the old days of role playing games. As much as it can, it attempts to cop the vibe of classic titles like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment, Dungeons and Dragons based properties
Saving Doctor Who – Episode 2: Arcs, Horror and Screwdrivers
Every generation of children has the right to be scared senseless and feel a powerful urge to watch from behind the sofa.
Video Nasties: Don’t Look In The Basement aka The Forgotten (1973)
The cast, combined with some clever writing courtesy of Tim Pope, makes the best of the cheap budget and Gothic setting of an isolated mental institution, to create a mood that is more surreal, moody and menacing than traumatic.
James Tiptree Jr. / Alice Sheldon: Acerca de la identidad de género
A discussion of women in SF and their progress or lack thereof over the course of the past half-century.
Memories of the World Science Fiction Convention 2013
Science fiction has a long future ahead. While this was my first Worldcon, I hope it will not be my last.
When Science Fiction IS Science Fiction
It is a profound mistake to interpret the genre of science fiction literally
Team Marvel or Team DC?
Is it possible to be Team Marvel and Superman (stand alone) at the same time? Because that is where I am….
More Women in Science Fiction
Profiles of women science fiction authors – including the mother of it all, Mary Shelley.
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