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Business As Usual
Spring, 1890, and England needs a hero. Gideon Smith is yet to step up to the role as public protector of the Empire, but in the background and the shadows, Mr Walsingham pulls strings to keep the...
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Forget Odds Vs. Evens: Bad Star Trek Movies Can Be Detected By Their Subtitle
In Simon Pegg’s brilliant sitcom Spaced his character Tim declares certain things he knows to be universally true including the acknowledged fact that “every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shite.” And...
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Watch the Star Trek Into Darkness Cast Get Punked by Simon Pegg’s Neutron...
By now, many of us have heard the story of how Simon Pegg fooled most of the current Trek cast into applying “neutron cream” to their skin in certain scenes to prevent “ions in the air” from affecting...
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“I Am The One Who” Thinks Breaking Bad Counts As Genre Fiction
Much has been written about the so-called “Water Cooler” shows, the television programs that everybody’s talking about, that everyone wants to be caught up so that they can be a part of the...
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The Chronicles of Riddick: What Happens When You Let Vin Diesel Be Your...
2000’s Pitch Black was a tightly-focused horror movie set in a science fictional universe. Much like the Alien franchise before it, Pitch Black’s sequel sought to take the seed of the original...
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Rereading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy, The Blade Itself: “Fencing...
If there is a reread medal for achievement in the face of impossible odds, the completion of this week’s post deserves it. After beginning my Worldcon over a week ago, I have barely recovered enough to...
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Upon Its Ending, All the Ways Futurama Made Us Happy
After 14 years, 7 seasons, and a series of improbable resurrections, Futurama—the animated series that embodied the 31st century (and arguably the 21st)—comes to an end this Wednesday, September...
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Vicious Sweepstakes!
After our excerpt, cover reveal, and prequel story, “Warm Up,” we know you’re itching to get your hands on V.E. Schwab’s Vicious. The novel doesn’t come out from Tor Books until September 24, but we...
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Farscape Rewatch: “What Was Lost II: Resurrection”
What Was Lost II: ResurrectionWritten by Justin Monjo, directed by Rowan WoodsSeason 4, episode 31st UK Transmission Date: 14 October20021st US Transmission Date: 21 June 2002Guest Cast: Raelee Hill...
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On the Origin of Species: Proxima by Stephen Baxter
We have wondered how life began ever since we had the wherewithal to wonder, I warrant. Generation after generation, inquiring minds have asked exactly that: a question that has no absolute answer, so...
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Hell is Other People: Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams
Following recent events, the angel Doloriel, also known as Bobby Dollar, is effectively on administrative leave while his inscrutable supervisors in Heaven figure out what to do with him. Now that he...
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The Secret World of Sleep (Excerpt)
In recent years neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest...
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Bill Nye Will Look Like This on Dancing With the Stars—Everything is Beautiful
We are so excited that Bill Nye is going to be on Dancing With the Stars because, seriously, how have they gone this long without properly representing SCIENCE?And now we’re more excited because of...
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Life in Space is Impossible, the New Gravity Trailer
Holy cow, everyime I see a trailer for this movie my heart pounds. Gravity opens October 4th and I cannot wait. Read the full article
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Morning Roundup Advises You to Let the Mugato Win
Artist Phil Noto contributed to The Lion King, Mulan, and Lilo and Stitch before leaving Disney for the comics world, where he’s worked on titles including The Avengers, Buffy, and Hellboy. And while...
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The Celery Stalks at Midnight: Scientific American asks “Are Engineered Foods...
To GM or not to GM? The genetically modified (GM) argument has been raging for decades, though recently it has gained more mainstream attention as advances in science and the increased clout of...
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The Wild, Wild Jundland Wastes? Star Wars: Kenobi
Writers know that most stories can easily be split into one of two categories—“a child leaves home” or “a stranger comes to town.” The western is practically always the latter; someone enters a...
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Concept Artist’s Weather-beaten Ships Ply Oceans of Air
When I look at concept artist Ian McQue’s marvelously impossible flying ships, I swear I can hear them—creaking and clanking as they sway on unseen currents, cables banging against their sides, hull...
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Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” as Performed in Mario Paint
Is there anything Mario Paint can’t do? YouTube user jeonghoon95 recently used the 21 year old game’s music editor to re-create Daft Punk’s current earworm “Get Lucky” and the results are adorable....
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The Way of Kings Reread: Chapter 29
Another week has come and gone, and with it another section of The Way of Kings. This week the reread arrives at Part Three: Dying, which brings Shallan back into focus, with Dalinar disappearing for...
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