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The Enterprise Becomes a Turntable in Beautifully Bonkers IFC Star Trek Ska Ad
Whoever is in charge of making decisions about commercials on IFC is totally one of us. First, they had this remarkably self aware promo for R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” and now...this. IFC is...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Book 3, Grave Peril
The Nevernever, realm of faeries, spirits and ghosts. In Grave Peril, the third Dresden Files novel, Harry Dresden must contend with all of these, as well as three different kinds of vampires and an...
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Breaking Dawn, Part 2: Electric Twilightening
I have tried, since stumbling out of the theater Thursday night in a bilious fury, to write an objective review of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the final movie in the Twilight series, and always ended up...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tomorrow Stories, Part Two
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...
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Impulse Sweepstakes!
Steven Gould's Impulse won't be available until January, so we thought we would give everyone an early shot to get their hands on it! We've got 10 ARCs here in the office, and we're itching to send...
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Tune: Vanishing Point (Comics Excerpt)
We’ve got a snazzy comics excerpt from Derek Kirk Kim’s Tune: Vanishing Point, first in a new series out now from First Second:Andy’s life is going nowhere, fast. He left art school with his career all...
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Wandering the Weird: The Vorrh by B. Catling
Not a few folks make a meal of it, but the act of differentiating between books good, bad and abundantly ugly is fairly straightforward, I find. Several simple indicators—including care, competence and...
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Morning Roundup: Ultraman Rides AT-AT in Imperial Rodeo
Over on Geek-Art.net, there's this nice piece of fan art from Franco Brambilla of what appears to be Ultraman riding an AT-AT. Looks like Vader is down there watching, too. We love it, and it seems...
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Sanderson on a Smaller Scale: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
At the start of Brandon Sanderson’s latest novella The Emperor’s Soul, Emperor Ashravan has just barely survived an assassination attempt. He’s alive thanks to his healers’ skills, but his mind has...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Homosexual Torturers, Immortal Rulers, and FTL...
Sometimes I wonder how many science fiction novels feature torturers with homosexual tendencies. I have a feeling the final tally would disturb me. (No, don’t tell me. I don’t need to know.)R.M....
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Twelve Forever: Ray Bradbury’s New Lost Story “Dear Santa”
Published for the first time ever in today's issue of The Strand Magazine—the venerable publication that first brought Sherlock Holmes to the world—is perhaps the final lost story from the late Ray...
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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Breathes New Life Into a Classic
In a matter of of days, one of the most iconic RPGs of the late 90s/early 2000s makes its return to the gaming scene. With Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (BG:EE) set to hit the marketplace on November...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: Towers of Midnight, Part 27
‘Allo, mates! It’s a Wheel of Time Re-read! Come and see the violence inherent in the blogging!Today’s entry covers Chapter 50-52 of Towers of Midnight, in which rulers get unruly, and I am variously...
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Badly Channeling Jane Austen: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck
After publishing eighteen books, ten of them historical, Georgette Heyer finally turned to the period that she would make her own: the Regency, in a book titled, appropriately enough, Regency Buck.And...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Lessons”
Administrative note: There will be no TNG Rewatch on Friday the 23rd of November due to the Thanksgiving holiday. We’ll be back on Tuesday the 27th with “The Chase.”“Lessons”Written by Ron Wilkerson...
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The Six Gun Tarot (Excerpt)
Here's a sneak peek at The Six Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher, out on January 22:Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an Action Figure Now
Artist datazoid recently created an entire series of fictional action figures based on real-life scientists. Again: these are sadly, tragically, not real action figures. But we wish they were! From the...
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Morning Roundup: Team Zissou Takes on The White Whale
Moby Dick did more than take out Ahab’s leg, he also bit ATE Esteban! We think Steve Zissou and the crew of the Belafonte have a way better chance at stopping this leviathan than the crew of the...
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The Late Mike Fellinger’s Turkey Algorithm: An Exercise in Geek Cooking
I still think of this as Jon Singer’s Turkey Algorithm, because that’s the title under which I knew it for decades; but Singer says it was devised by the late Mike Fellinger, and must be credited to...
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What Made The Twilight Movies Bearable Was How Meta They Were
If you look at all five Twilight movie posters, you can see the tone slowly shift from almost painfully serious (vampiric Edward looming over frail Bella) to ridiculous (werewolves and vamps charging...
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