A Trip to the Moon More like a trip into the past Netflix recently added on the streaming side the 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon (or in the original French Le Voyage dans la Lune). This film, touted as the very first science fiction film and often… Continue reading
Geek culture calls it “Sportsball” Over the past few years I’ve noticed at the beginning of football season that the geek culture brings back this sportsball meme. It’s the non-jock segment of geek culture (which is a very large percentage) perpetuating this. It sounds something like this: “One squad has… Continue reading
This series Under the Dome, loosely based on a Stephen King novel, finished its first season. The series is not the novel. Wikipedia quotes Stephen King as saying: …story modifications are slotting into place because the writers have completely re-imagined the source of the Dome. ****Warning – speculation and possible… Continue reading
There is and has been for a long time a heated discussion on diversity in science fiction and fantasy, or rather the lack of diversity in the community. Historically the readership/fan base for this kind of material has been straight white male, with authors of the same sort. There seems… Continue reading
I don’t like days like today, days when I turn on the computer and learn that one of the icons of science fiction has died. Science Fiction losing Ray Bradbury is like football losing Bart Starr, or baseball losing Stan Musial. It’s like Hollywood losing Clint Eastwood, or rock and… Continue reading
For the writer, every genre has its quirks and its peculiar difficulties. The peculiar difficulty of science fiction is that, at least to be true to form, there must be an aspect of science that is so integral to the plot that removing it causes the entire story to collapse…. Continue reading
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