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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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Strange Chemistry Books adds Zenn Scarlett to their seething spec fiction mix…
Was able to start my day today with the news that editor Amanda Rutter has announced the acquisition of my Zenn Scarlett young adult science fiction series by Strange Chemistry Books. I alluded to this in an earlier post and … Continue reading
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Alien contact: “Howdy, let’s be friends!” or “Oh my, these human things are naaaasty.”
A number of soft, easily-captured-immobilized-broasted-and-eaten humans with a vested interest have been thinking, furiously it seems, about the down-in-the-weeds details of how our first contact with an alien intelligence might go. And some of our sage-est of sage elders (as … Continue reading
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Oh, the drama…
So… what’s been unveiled as the hottest-yet-coolest category of books we’d all be ever-so-sorry to miss out on this summer? According to the velvet-voiced and very bright people at National Public Radio (jazzy drum roll, please), it’s… …Young Adult Fiction, … Continue reading
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Cast members of this show in it for the long run. Long as in pretty much forever.
A Dutch company has been formed to send volunteers to establish a settlement on Mars by the year 2023. The company’s recent press releases inform us that the colonists’ adventure would be filmed and broadcast back to Earth … 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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Ridley’s SF Re-boot: Promethean… or what?
OK, first thing: Ridley Scott’s original Alien is one of my all-time favorite pieces of film-making, from the direction, to the script, to the casting, to the acting, to H. R. Giger’s uber-innovative art direction and genre-defining ship-and-alien-concepts/designs. The Nostromo was … Continue reading
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Livin’ on the edge
Just a quick acknowledgment that a landmark, and largely unnoticed, moment in human history is very nearly upon us: the first ape-made objects ever launched from Earth are close to entering interstellar space. The NASA/JPL people won’t know for sure … Continue reading
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