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On Our Radar: The Perfect Chair for Your Secret Underground Lair
You need this chair. It’s calling to the dark corners of your thoughts. You want to sip tea in it and plot the end of the world through the cunning use of fly paper. You and this chair could summon...
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Morning Roundup: New Star Trek Might Be a Trilogy
Welcome to your Friday, the conclusion of the pentalogy known as the work week. We thought every installment in this pentalogy was superb, but we are planning on doing a prequel at some point. For now,...
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At the Edge: An SFF Exhibition
At the Edge opened this past Saturday in Allentown, PA. I was smacked right in the eyes when I turned to look at the first piece on the first gallery wall: a beautiful pen and ink by Franklin Booth of...
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Ridley Scott Brings The Light: Prometheus
It’s been quite some time since there was a big-budget Hollywood movie as thematically and intellectually ambitious as Prometheus. Not content with anything other than the biggest questions, Prometheus...
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Winter Has Gone: True Blood Returns to HBO
Summer is coming.After a drama-heavy season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the cable network’s sultry vampire soap True Blood returns for its fifth year, promising lots of hot blood, hotter sex, and a host...
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Remembering Ray Bradbury
In the 20th Century he was comparable to Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. But Bradbury, in the ’40s and ’50s, became the name brand. Now they all, the BACH group, are gone.He came...
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Fanboy Porn Or Old School Monster Smackdown? The Alien vs. Predator Films
Among movie myths, the notion that there is an alternate ending of King Kong vs. Godzilla in which Godzilla wins is extremely pervasive because it seems like it should be true. But in reality, Kong is...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: The Bonehunters, Chapter Twenty-Three, Part One
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 22
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 22 of A...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Ensign Ro”
“Ensign Ro”Written by Rick Berman & Michael PillerDirected by Les LandauSeason 5, Episode 3Production episode 40275-203Original air date: October 7, 1991Stardate: 45076.3Captain’s log: Picard’s...
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Intersectional, Feminist, Diverse: The Moment of Change, edited by Rose Lemberg
During poetry month, I spotlighted the queer special issue of Rose Lemberg’s speculative poetry magazine, Stone Telling—and now, her first anthology has been released by Aqueduct Press: The Moment of...
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Black Bottle (Excerpt)
Check out this excerpt from Anthony Huso’s Black Bottle, out on August 21:Tabloids sold in the Duchy of Stonehold claim that the High King, Caliph Howl, has been raised from the dead. His consort, Sena...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Beach Chair” and “Volume Visualization on Image...
Volume Visualization on Image Computer: Before they became known for making films, Pixar’s bread and butter was selling high-end 3D computer visualization stations. This is a demo reel used to show the...
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You Can Own a Redshirts Shirt!
Just in at our Zazzle store: you can be part of the Intrepid crew with the new t-shirt based on John Scalzi’s Redshirts! Available in men and women’s sizes, we promise these shirts will keep you safe...
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Trucker Ghost Stories Sweepstakes!
For a fun Saturday sweeps, we’ve got nine ARC copies of Trucker Ghost Stories: And Other True Tales of Haunted Highways, Weird Encounters, and Legends of the Road by Annie Wilder. Get some chills!Check...
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Morning Roundup: Aliens: The Musical!
Welcome to Monday! No matter what you thought of Prometheus and how it fits into the Alien mythos, you have to admit it did lack people bursting into song. Aliens: The Musical could fix that. Watch it...
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Queen’s Hunt (Excerpt)
We’ve got the first chapter from the second installment to Beth Bernobich’s River of Souls series—Queen’s Hunt, out July 17:Ilse Zhalina has left to start a new life in a garrisoned fort, leagues from...
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Queering SFF – Pride Month Extravaganza: Spotlight on James Tiptree, Jr. /...
The history of James Tiptree, Jr. is fairly well documented in our field. There are biographies, posthumous collections, an award named for her, as well as the long memory of letters, fanzines, and the...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, “Susan,”...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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Prometheus Reviewed in Comic Form
It’s always fun to take a look at different reviews for movies, but never quite as fun as when they in comic form from our favorite Faith Erin Hicks! (She’s probably the only Faith Erin Hicks, but that...
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