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Announcing the Spectrum Fantastic Art Award Finalists
The 19th edition of the Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual was juried yesterday. This year, gold and silver medal winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at Spectrum Live, a weekend long...
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10 Minutes of John Carter!
Our resident Burroughs expert had some good things to say about John Carter of the Movies, now Disney seems to be trying to prove it is worth seeing (in the face of what many are claiming a botched ad...
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Morning Roundup: Top Gun 2 Somehow Not Writing Itself
Welcome to Monday in which we think about possible plots for Top Gun 2. Though it’s a movie no one neither needs nor wants, we think it should feature the ghost of Goose urging Maverick to take to the...
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The Film-makers of Mars
The discovery of forty reels of a lost 1911 movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, impossibly well-made and yet ineluctably old, is…weird. But for the journalist protagonist of...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles The Waste Lands, “Lud: A...
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the dry stone no sound of water.— From T.S. Eliot’s “The Wastelands”Welcome to A Read of the...
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Scientific Language: H. Beam Piper’s “Omnilingual”
Re-reading “Omnilingual,” an H. Beam Piper short story published in Analog in 1957 and collected in Federation, I decided it was the classic SF short story, the one everyone ought to read if they’re...
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Alexander Gordon Smith’s Fugitives Tour Starts Today
Alexander Gordon Smith is heading out on tour in the United States to promote the release of his latest Escape from the Furnace book, The Fugitives.You can read a short self-contained story, “The Night...
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We’re Glad to Reread The Hunger Games Because It Means We’re Not In Them
Death-defying heroics in any adventure story is huge part of why we love popular fiction. Stories in which characters are literally or figuratively hanging off cliffs are fun because they make us turn...
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New Men in Black 3 Trailer Tries Appealing to the Mad Men Crowd
In the latest trailer for Austin Powers 2 Men in Black 3 the whole 60s thing is played up quite a bit, complete with retro-space helmets, Andy Warhol and a total Mad Men vibe. Also, are those like...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Pop Quiz
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was, in my opinion, one of the first shows to do arc writing perfectly, to build up a large conflict, bit by bit, in tightly-focused episodes... and then to bust out the huge,...
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Your Moment of “Bo He-Man Rhapsody” Zen
There’s something about the appropriation of He-Man in YouTube videos that can make your whole day better. Like that wonderful Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance trailer mash-up. But when you combine...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Watchmen, Part 2
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide commentary on...
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Myke Cole, Hillary Jordan, and Naomi Novik Panel in NYC Tomorrow + New Book...
Tomorrow, Housing Works Bookstore in conjunction with Word Bookstore celebrates Geek Week with a panel discussion called “Dragons in Space.” Featured on this panel are Hillary Jordan (When She Woke)...
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Myke Cole, Hillary Jordan, and Naomi Novik Panel in NYC Tomorrow + New Book...
Tomorrow, Housing Works Bookstore in conjunction with Word Bookstore celebrates Geek Week with a panel discussion called “Dragons in Space.” Featured on this panel are Hillary Jordan (When She Woke)...
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The Walking Dead S2, E11: “Judge, Jury, Executioner”
Hoo, boy. Now that was an episode. Problematic? Just like always. But still entertaining. For the first time this season I wasn’t constantly checking the time to see how much more boring chatfests I’d...
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Understanding Hegel with Philip K. Dick on the Thirteenth Floor
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. If you’ve ever picked up a copy of an academic journal like Jump Cut what you...
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Mythological TKO: Tooth and Nail by Jennifer Safrey
Meet Gemma Fae Cross. She’s a real tough cookie. A pollster by occupation, she’s currently taking a break from full-time employment so as to avoid any perceived conflict of interest with her boyfriend,...
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Morning Roundup: Westeros Gets Built Piece by Piece in Minecraft
This is King’s Landing from A Game of Thrones as created through the infinitely variable game Minecraft. The team behind this project has already started on Westeros and aims to map the entirety of...
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Last Call for the Parasol: Timeless by Gail Carriger
Fiction series should be like guests. There comes a point in the evening when everyone knows the conversation has died, the hostess is yawning, and someone has just said, “Well...” Sadly, there is...
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Shot Through the Heart! Our 10 Favorite Fictional Archers
Though Obi-Wan Kenobi claims a lightsaber is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age, the real-life weapon that probably holds this distinction is the bow and arrow. Not only does it take strength,...
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