Science Fiction and Fan...

Star Trek, Avatar, Moon, District 9, Best Served Cold, The Gone Away World, BattleStar Galactica, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Dark Reign, Blackest Night, Stargate Universe, and so much more. 2009 has been the year for big events in genre media of all kinds. While it would be nice to take a...

Is Fantasy the New Scie...

Hanging out at Orycon over the weekend I heard a number of people saddened by the fact that fantasy has overtaken science fiction in popular culture. During the last half of the 20th century sci-fi predominated our genre fiction, with a large black monolith waiting at the end of the...

Dubai—The end of the ...

There’s a pretty good article here that covers the surreal ridiculousness of Dubai, and how, in retrospect, its collapse was inevitable. What the author doesn’t mention is how this paradise was essentially an orwellian nightmare—a place where people could be detained for...

Deep thoughts on Twilig...

And the fact that no one is tells you something about just how interesting this new audience...

Hellboy II: Tell me som...

I can review this movie in a single sentence: There are many of wonderful and magical things about Hellboy II, but unfortunately the story isn’t one of them. There. Done. So long! Or maybe I could go a bit beyond that and talk about how amazing the character designs are, and how...