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T. Rex meets Klaatu. Fisticuffs ensue.
So…here we have…the Dinosaurs vs Aliens Motion Comic. Hmmm. It’s Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld and comic book great Grant Morrison’s unlikely mash up of what has to be two of the surest bets in the realms of pop-culture/kid-in-all-of-us … Continue reading
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Launch your brain into “The Living Cosmos”
The Living Cosmos by Chris Impey Cambridge University Press 393 Pages, Paperback Edition Updated 2010 I write fiction that speculates about life on other planets, and while my attention to scientific nuts and bolts is far from exhaustive, I take … Continue reading
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The art of the as-yet unreal.
Science fiction & fantasy book covers, magazine illustrations and film posters are some of the most reliably awesome well-springs of artwork that, well… that you just won’t see anywhere else. Every year, the Chesley Awards spotlight the alien/elvish goodness of … Continue reading
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus: just one big ol’ salt-water aquarium?
NASA’s Cassini probe to Saturn has turned up the best evidence yet that there’s a seriously vast ocean of salt water sloshing around beneath the icy shell girdling the little Saturnian moon Enceladus. The water comes from fissure’s … Continue reading
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The coming andro-pocalypse. RUReady?
Robots. They’re already insinuating themselves into our lives in all sorts of sinister ways. They build our cars, fly our airplanes, do a little cleaning. But when they finally make their move and take over, you’ll wish you’d treated … Continue reading
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Home is where the green-blood-pumping heart is…
Aliens invade the Earth! Humans mount heroic-but-hopeless resistance! The White House… vaporized! It’s a time-honored SF scenario, stretching back to the genre’s puppyhood, with badness-from-the-skies like H.G. Wells’ venerable War of the Worlds. And, frankly, I’ve always been … Continue reading
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What’s the Next Big Thing? Or: I See A Tall Dark Carbon-Based Life Form in Your Future…
So, how big… is big? One of the more popular (and never-ending) games in publishing, and the entertainment industry in general, is “What’s the next Big Thing?” It’s right up there with “What Should We Call Our Band?” Of course, … Continue reading
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Internet, schminternet…. Books Shockingly NOT Dead.
How many times have you heard that the net has sucked every last drop of inky-black blood from the veins of our poor old novels and books and reading-by-short-attention-span-humans in general? Well, turns out it just ain’t so. In … Continue reading
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Death and the maiden: The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Publisher: Knopf Year: 2007 Pages: 576 First off, this isn’t a review of Zusak’s marvelous book. It’s a query, of sorts. I suspect many of you out there have already … Continue reading
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Harry Potter author to her lit agent: “Dude-amus begon-amus!”
The drama of J.K. Rowling’s decision to part ways with her long-time agent is covered (somewhat breathlessly…) by the UK’s Daily Mail. But there’s a buried gem inside the larger story: the tale of how Rowling’s initial HP manuscript submission had … Continue reading
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