Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Aqiuel”
“Aquiel”Written by Jeri Taylor and Brannon Braga & Ronald D. MooreDirected by Cliff BoleSeason 6, Episode 12Production episode 40276-239Original air date: February 1, 1993Stardate: 46461.3Captain’s...
View ArticleDownload Free Wallpaper of The Gathering Storm Ebook Cover
As part of the run up to the release of A Memory of Light, the final book in the Wheel of Time series, Tor.com is releasing free wallpapers of all available ebook art!This week we’re featuring the...
View ArticleTheories on What Star Wars: Episode VII Could Be Like
With word of Disney acquiring Lucasfilm yesterday also came the shocking news that George Lucas is giving up Star Wars. In a move that almost seems like a public break-up, Star Wars is now someone...
View ArticleMaybe It’s Time I Changed This Pumpkin
It’s been sagging,slowly browning,and it looksjust like I’m frowning.On the stem I've pinnedsome paper pines—they help the stink,I think.[Ignore the flies and read on....]Read the full article
View ArticleFiction Affliction: “Genre-Benders” for November
You never know what you’ll find in the Genre Benders aisle, and this month’s fifteen new releases that defy categorization are no exception. There are series additions from Cherie Priest, Alexander...
View ArticleIt’s Always Been Fast Zombies. Wayne Simmons on Night of the Living Dead
To celebrate the US release of his Flu series, Wayne Simmons has written a review of one of the movies that started it all. George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968).The first zombie was a...
View ArticleRemember Girls, Show the World. Let Them Know it’s Halloween.
What if Dumbledore could sing? And wore eye-liner? And was Tim Curry but also kind of David Bowie? Then you’d get this amazing Halloween song from made-for-TV movie The Worst Witch, where Curry plays...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Tom Haverford is Iron Man
Over on The Daily What, we spotted one of the more heartwarming mash-ups out there: “Stark and Recreation” featuring Aziz Ansari’s Tom Haverford as Iron Man! Imagine the wisecracks if Tony Stark and...
View ArticleThe Great Stephen King Reread: The Shining
Born from a bad dream experienced during a one-night stay at a Colorado hotel that was closing for the season, The Shining is the first book Stephen King wrote from a position of financial stability....
View ArticlePicturing Archers
Archers are cool, there’s just no two ways about it. There is something particularly elegant about the bow and arrow. It’s a romantic weapon that exudes competence and stealthy precision. So, next up...
View ArticleReopening The X-Files: “Triangle”
Season 6, Episode 6: “Triangle”Original Airdate: November 22, 1998For a science fiction television program, The X-Files is not particularly interested in time travel. We’ve had fortune-tellers, missing...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas Will Spend $4 Billion on Funding Education
The Hollywood Reporter recently asked George Lucas what his next steps will be, following the 4.05 billion sale of Lucasfilm, ILM, and effectively the Star Wars juggernaut, to Disney. The bulk of the...
View ArticleMake It So: The Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary Reunion at...
You hear it all the time on DVD commentaries, talk shows, and making-of featurettes—“we were like a family, we were all best friends!” Usually you feel like taking that sort of statement with a big or...
View ArticleWhy Battlestar Galactica’s President Roslin Defies Political Stereotypes
Four years ago, a historic election rocked America...but 2008 was also the year Battlestar Galactica went off the air, to the dismay of fans everywhere. The story of our distant human relatives forever...
View ArticleReturning to Magic: Edward Eager’s Seven Day Magic
Having just written a book supposedly about magic with, well, no real magic, Edward Eager opened his final book in the Magic series, Seven-Day Magic, with five kids complaining about books that don’t...
View ArticleFiction Affliction: November Releases in Urban Fantasy
The month that a new Harry Dresden novel is released is kind of like an Apple event for the urban fantasy crowd—almost worth camping outside the bookstore the night before release, wearing long mantled...
View ArticleMorning Roundup: Sigourney Weaver is a Wizard
So, we're not sure when this was, but apparently Sigourney Weaver once went as a wizard for Halloween. Or, perhaps, Sigourney Weaver recently came out as a wizard. It makes sense—how else could she...
View Article11 Essential Video Game Movies
With Wreck-It Ralph poised to bring video game-related inside jokes to a whole new level on the big screen, I figured it’s a good time to look at which video game movies define and create this specific...
View ArticleBrian Lumley’s Necroscope Headed to the Big Screen?
Special effects make-up artist and Face Off judge Glenn Hetrick will be writing and directing a movie adaptation of Brian Lumley’s long-running supernatural horror adventure series Necroscope. Hetrick...
View ArticleEx Machina and the Great Political Machine of Brian K. Vaughan
“And this his majesty will think we have reason to expect when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people, appointed by the laws, and circumscribed with definite powers, to...
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