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My Version of Siri and Zooey... and Blade Runner
The new AT&T iPhone ads show celebs using Siri to plan their days. Here’s my version. All Zooey Deschanel’s dialogue is lifted straight from the commercial until after the director calls cut.Zooey:...
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Spock to the Future: Barbara Hambly’s Ishmael
Barbara Hambly’s 1985 novel, Ishmael, is a study in contrasts. It’s deeply weird, and deeply serious. It’s densely packed with things that should be ridiculous, and are somehow alarming. The first...
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Gaming Roundup: Diablo Returns, Wolfenstein 3D Turns 20, and The Elder...
As many avid Blizzard fans (or gamers in general, really) already know, Diablo III’s release is less than a week away from becoming reality. The May 15 launch date is welcome news to jonesing players...
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Check Out Super7even’s Perfect Tongue-in-Cheek Prisoner Homage
Stunt coordinator Scott Rhodes (Batman: Dead End, Daredevil) is the mind behind web series Super7even, starring Jerry Kokich. Following in the tradition of spy narratives and masked-superheroes,...
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Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 10: The Road To Newarre
Welcome to the last of the speculative summaries of my no moon left unturned reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. This post is about the things we think we know, and it contains...
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Roosters, Pigs, and Clockwork: Freddy and the Clockwork Twin
Well, this did surprise Dr. Murdock, for he had never found a rooster in any of his patients before.Few doctors indeed have the privilege of finding roosters in their patients. But this, of course, is...
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Making the Ordinary Meet the Extraordinary With Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is the hardest working fantasy author in the world. With over a hundred books and millions of readers, he’s the creator of the Xanth books, Incarnations of Immortality series, and many...
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On Our Radar: If an Eight-Year-Old Reviewed Avengers
This complete review of The Avengers, created and featured on The Mary Sue and done in the style of a second grader’s book report, had us in tears. And yelling “I WANT TO LIVE IN HIS HAIR.” at our...
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Jimi Hendrix, Spaceships, and Science Fiction
Jimi Hendrix changed the face of rock and roll forever, and while you certainly know his music, there’s so much more to his story. In a new book, Hendrix’s younger brother details what it was like...
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Community Renewed for Fourth Season
Deadline is reporting from the network TV upfront presentations this week and has just announced that constantly on-the-bubble nerdy delight Community has been renewed for a fourth season!The season...
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Morning Roundup: Cumberbatch and Downey Jr. are Neighbors
Listen. It’s entirely possible the aliens in Alien are allegric to cats. Jones totally lives through the entire ordeal on the Nostromo, and the xenomorph bats away the little cage Jones is in that one...
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Let’s Go to the Underworld: The Writing of The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland
It is hard to explain how a book begins. Writers have their own vocabularies to make sense of it, sets of metaphors that come close to describing what happens in the authorial brain when a book starts...
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland Sweepstakes!
Now that Catherynne M. Valente has told you everything you need to know about the creation of The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, we thought it would only be fair to give five...
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The Two Southern Nancys: Casting Crowley and Aziraphale for Good Omens
The world has been threatening a Good Omens adaptation for years now, for film and television both. (Neil Gaiman himself actually wrote a screenplay a long while back, which is fascinating if you ever...
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On Our Radar: The Avengers on Parade in Maurice Sendak Style
DeviantArt user AgarthanGuide (also known as artist Hannah Friederich) is responsible for the cuteness overload drawing up above of the Avengers on parade, done in the style of Maurice Sendak. Click...
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What is living for? Poul Anderson’s The Corridors of Time
Poul Anderson really was an amazing writer. It’s good to be reminded of that by reading something relatively unfamiliar, because I’m much too close to most of his best books to be able to see them with...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: The Bonehunters, Chapter Sixteen
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Part 18
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 18 of A...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Host”
“The Host”Written by Michel HorvatDirected by Marvin V. RushSeason 4, Episode 23Production episode 40274-197Original air date: May 13, 1991Stardate: 44821.3Captain’s Log: The Enterprise is bringing a...
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Tor.com Post-Credits Scene Revealed!
The Tor.com post-credits scene has been revealed! We don’t want to reveal the specifics, but it appears that some Tor.com staff and contributors are kicking back after a hard day saving the world.[The...
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