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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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Lawrence Kasdan & Simon Kinberg Will Write/Produce Star Wars VIII + Star Wars IX
In what seems like a crazy Star Wars rumor that is likely to be totally true; the co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and more—Lawrence Kasdan—is...
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American Gods Reread: Conclusion/“The Monarch of The Glen”
Welcome to the final installment of our ongoing American Gods Reread, a rambling literary road trip through Neil Gaiman’s Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning novel (soon to be an HBO series). In our...
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New Full Trailer for Jack the Giant Slayer
Will Jack The Giant Slayer be the unexpected hit of next year? The new trailer is pretty great. More McGregor![Full trailer below the cut]Read the full article
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Willful Child
As a thank you to Malazan fans on this site and everywhere, Steven Erikson has offered up a special treat! Enjoy this preview of “Willful Child,” an uncompleted sci-fi story that Steven Erikson has...
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One Hobbit Super-Trailer to Rule Them All
In case you missed it, fans have created a 7:37 minute super-trailer for The Hobbit, combining all the footage from previous trailers. How excited are we for this? December cannot come soon...
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Oxygen Deprivation and Zeppelin on Revolution’s “Kashmir”
What do you get when you cross hallucinations, underground urban exploration and some trippy Led Zeppelin? No, it’s not someone’s bad college vacation memories—it’s this week’s episode of our favorite...
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Farscape Rewatch: “Look At The Princess III: The Maltese Crichton”
Look At The Princess III: The Maltese CrichtonWritten by David Kemper, directed by Andrew Prowse and Tony TilseSeason 2, Episode 131st US Transmission Date: 4 August 20001st UK Transmission Date: 25...
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