09
Jun
The Pseudoiterative Academic
With the semester having just ended, many of us are settling into new summertime routines and hoping those routines supports
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Science Fiction
20
Jun
Summer Blockbusters: Sci-fi and Alternate History
It seems the past has replaced the future as Hollywood's preferred setting for summer's science fiction
11
Dec
Truth (happily) stranger than fiction
I recently finished rereading, for the first time in many years, one of my childhood favorites, Ray Bradbury's
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25
Mar
Briefly Noted for March 25, 2008
Wikihistory is a short science fiction story about a group of future time travelers' journeys to the mid-20th century.
20
Jan
Forty Signs of Rain
This post may be even shorter than usual. I'm writing from Breckenridge, CO where I'm enjoying
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13
Jan
Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008
New Stella Artois website uses brewer's long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially "L'
12
Dec
Star Wars, the baroque version
Star Wars, the baroque version. Like steampunk, but older.
(Via Old is the New New.)
03
Apr
Red, Green, and Blue
I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's superb Mars Trilogy, an imagined history of humankind's
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26
Mar
History on the Corner
To commemorate 30 years of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service has started painting its blue corner mailboxes to
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04
Jan
F/X
A quick one tonight from Popular Mechanics: The Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History. In fact it'