So the excellent actor Peter Capaldi is to play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor. Perhaps with the 50th anniversary of the programme approaching Steven Moffat just couldn’t resist casting another middle-aged Scotsman as his […]
Science Fiction Television Gerry Anderson Official Website Fanderson Site Anderson Encycliopedia Neil Gaiman Sings XL5 Theme Song Irwin Allen Irwin Allen Irwin Allen News Website Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Lost in […]
I learned of this comic book style rendering of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot soliloquy from The Huffingtonpost. I immediately got in touch with its creator – Gavin Aung Than to ask permission to reprint […]
Fanzines: What the heck is a ‘zine, anyhow? Well, ‘zine (usually abbreviated without the apostrophe) is short for fanzine, which should be self-explanatory. Unless I’m very much mistaken, SF fans were the first ones to […]
This is a post for the writers. And for readers who enjoy a bit of a rant. Warning: contains religion.
Another year, another Comic-Con touches down in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp district and billows the hell around and makes a metric ton of people really excited. I love being one of those people and for […]
Like any good con report, we begin the proceedings well in advance of the event. Several months ago I was invited to attend the convention as a panelist – technically my first ever panel appearance […]
There are many expressions of fandom that cross genres and cultures – fan fiction, fan art, even cosplay. But there is one form in particular that is distinctly Japanese, both in its origin and in […]
Will you stand for something? Or settle for anything?
Don’t do this; don’t do that: a mantra of the adult world. Growing up, things were so simple: the good guys do good; the bad guys do bad. And somewhere, sometime, somebody drew the line […]
The Lone Ranger, Gore Verbinsky’s revisionist telling of the legend of the masked man of the plains, will no doubt go down in history as the box office disaster of the summer of 2013. At a cost […]
ENTREVISTAS Fran Friel, en su “Blog Horde series” entrevista a Matt Mitrovich,un abogado de Chicago que además es blogger y escritor. Su blog es el Alternate History Weekly Update, en donde obviamente se ocupa de […]
I have a personal rule not to get involved in online discussions which have the potential to turn fractious. Yesterday I made the mistake of responding to a kindly put question on a well known […]
I’ve been reading Mike Madrid’s The Supergirls, a really fantastic look at the history of superheroines in mainstream American comics. I just reached the 1970s, and the karate-chopping, white-pantsuit-wearing, depowered Wonder Woman era that came with […]
It’s finally here! I’ve attended San Diego Comic-Con in mid-July for about the past 11 years and it’s never been stale. Sure, there are lines out to Tijuana and back, but there’s really nothing wrong […]
Simone de Beauvoir, en El Segundo Sexo, postula que la mujer no es, se hace, que la figura/identidad/rol “mujer” es un constructo elaborado por la civilización. La ciencia ficción, como producto cultural, como fruto y […]
De Mary Shelley a Kenneth Branagh Ricardo Acevedo E. Henry Frankenstein: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! Victor Moritz: […]
Guest Post by Eric Del Carlo In 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina, we broke the alphabet. Storms which brew up in the Atlantic and grind toward the Gulf of Mexico get named alphabetically. It’s a […]
Bendições from Brazil! By the time this post goes live, I will have been in this lovely country for two whole weeks, and will be getting ready to head back Stateside. But being here has […]
The library of Alexandria was the largest and most comprehensive repository of knowledge in the ancient world. In 46 AD (according to some sources) it burned. Countless scrolls went up in flames, in some cases […]
El domingo pasado presenté (a pesar de los terribles problemas técnicos) una visión crítica de la película cubana “Juan de los muertos”. Sí, me dirán algunos que como yo están hartos de que nuestros monstruos […]
When I returned to reading science fiction as adult I discovered a whole new generation of authors:Greg Bear, David Brin, William Gibson, Octavia E. Butler, and Orson Scott Card. In each case I would read a recommended book and […]
And I’m still not done talking about cons! Continuing with our talk about cons that have grown out of the SF con, we have things like Steampunk and Anime cons. Steampunk arose from the idea […]
Weeaboos? Weeaboos? If you don’t know what a weeaboo is, you probably aren’t one. If you’d rather be quite sure, visit this link and play weeaboo bingo with yourself! The checklist to the right is […]
La Facultad de Ciencia Y tecnología de la UPV/EHU ha dado a conocer las bases del certamen literario de ciencia-ficción Alberto Magno, que ya alcanza su edición 25ª. Los relatos, en euskera o castellano, […]
As I begin writing this, it pains me that such a post is even necessary here in the early years of the twenty-first century, to a group that purportedly celebrates things like the future, science […]
Por Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas Imagenes: CRSignes y Alberto Arribas Al principio solo había oscuridad… En ese vacío primigenio surgieron dos mundos: uno de fuego, y el otro de hielo, que comenzaron a expandirse lentamente. […]
I have hardly had time haven’t quite finished the novel I was reading to review, so this is going to be a short post this week. One of the things that’s great about blogging for […]
This blog is not a fan history, although I will cite some fan history. There are actual fanhistorians who guard our culture. If you want to read about early fan history, see the following books: […]
In September 1937 an English Don named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien published a children’s book called The Hobbit. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, had been dead for fifteen months. In 1950 Gnome Press […]
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