For some reason, I find this enormously fascinating:Lenin told the British science fiction writer H.G. Wells, who interviewed him in the Kremlin in 1920, that if life were discovered on other planets, revolutionary violence would no longer be necessary: "Human ideas—he told Wells—are based on...
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I have some musings on the latest US-Russia spat at the Guardian:CIF. While doing a bit of "research" for the piece, I read the wiki entry on A Taste of.
I'm trying to reserve judgment, but there's a fundamental conflict that I just can't get around with regards to the latest Star Trek. William Shatner's James T. Kirk is one.
Philip Jose Farmer has passed at the age of 91. Riders of the Purple Wage is an enduring masterpiece. Of the Riverworld series I only really liked To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat, although I made it through the entire set. Didn't...
Huh.Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are looking to the future -- literally.The New Line founders-turned-producers have signed on to produce their first project since they received their post-New Line deal.