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Library Porn vs Library Books
It’s a story as old as time. Library has patrons browsing porn on library computers. Other patrons complain about the porn. Library solves problem by installing some kind of privacy hoods on computers...
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Supercrap! = SyFy + M. Night Shyamalan + Marti Noxon Ruin the Universe
This is so horrible that it’s almost wonderful. It’s like Michael Bay hiring Damon Lindelof to make a movie about robot monkeys who fight crime or Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman teaming up to make...
View ArticleThe Cheesy Action Movie Makes a TV Comeback
Cinemax has a new business strategy. Forget the porn and bring on TV series remakes of action movies. Like The Transporter. The Transporter movies are played out so an Atlantic TV series makes sense....
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Directive 51 and Daybreak Zero by John Barnes book review
Most of what sits on the Science Fiction section bookshelf these days is fairly predictable. There are categories. Urban fantasy. Steampunk. Heinlein teen novels for adults. Dystopian space operas....
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The Semplica Girl Diaries or Why Does Art Lit Love Bad Science Fiction?
Despite all the progress made in yadda yadda, Science Fiction is still a ghetto. Sure the occasional Philip K. Dick will be plucked out into the spotlight, but despite the aggressive trashing of the...
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Jack Vance’s Darsh and Frank Herbert’s Fremen
Jack Vance wrote The Face, the fourth novel in the Demon Princes series after his friend Frank Herbert wrote Dune. The Face has Jack Vance’s own take on the desert people who adapt to the environment,...
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Is Science Fiction Fandom Hopelessly Polarized?
This isn’t just about Larry Correia and Vox Day. Or Jonathan Ross. Or Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Or Mick Resnick. Or all the rest of it. The bitter accusations and counter-accusations. The outrage and...
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Social Justice Warrior Writes About Science Fiction, Shows How Dumb He Is
“This man, he knows nothing of my work.” If you want to see the consequences of idiots who know a lot about how to analyze everything in racial terms, but don’t know the subject, writing about...
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Is SciFi Lit Dead? The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual...
It took me a while to get around to reading The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection. I don’t like Gardner Dozois on principle, but the annual collections, despite the nepotism,...
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Willful Child by Steven Erikson Book Review, a Lame $25 Star Trek Parody
Willful Child by Steven Erikson is supposed to be a Star Trek parody, but its real joke is about the publishing industry which will put out a 50 year joke as a 25 dollar hardcover novel because its...
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How Robert Charles Wilson’s The Chronoliths Predicted ISIS
Looking back, it’s hard to believe that Robert Charles Wilson’s The Chronoliths was a pre 9/11 novel. Its fractured world torn apart by the shadow of extremism and financial decline is extremely...
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The Unincorporated Future by Danni Kolin and Eytan Kollin book review
The Unincorporated Future by Danni Kollin and Eytan Kollin is an unimaginative mashup of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series, Tron and bits and pieces of Metaplanetary. Reading through it and John...
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Interstellar Movie Review – The Best Science Fiction Movie of the Decade
Christopher Nolan’s big movies are overstuffed, wobbling shopping carts full of stuff that are always about to topple over. The Hitchcock and Kubrick shots, the frantic editing, the acting that varies...
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