Tag Archives: SF

As a callow 16 year old virgin, forced by circumstances beyond my control to take premature control of my life, I had many romantic ideas about the world. Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game completely revolutionized the way I saw the world, showed me the limitations of fixed beliefs and …

A valiant first effort at fiction writing by technical author Clint Smith, but it falls short of its promise.

I loved Star Trek as a kid and watched it faithfully in the original run from ’66-’69 (can it really be that long ago?) – it was exciting, fired my young imagination and seemed like a fully-realized creation, manned with real people doing real things in fantastic settings (I wanted …

When I was a young kid in the ’60s, I thought the “supermarionation” puppet technique of shows like the Thunderbirds was super cool – maybe those puppets realy were alive and doing their own walking and talking. And if not, it was impressive anyway. Leaving no stone of nostalgia unturned, …

Finally catching up with USA's summer abductee mini-series. . .

Kit Reed's sardonic s-f satire on American diet culture. . .

Larry Young's old-school s-f graphic novel series. . .

Disney is making a film out of Douglas Adams’s comic sci-fi classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which incidentally began life as a radio series on the BBC. John Malkovich has been added to the cast in a role created by Adams for the film: It will also star Sam …

Written and Directed by Larry Blamire Nowadays, kids don’t have to watch a bad movie if they don’t want to. What with DVD players in their bedrooms, cell phones that work as walkie-talkies, game consoles, portable Internet access, and up to 500 channels on TV, they can now be entertained …

Every once in a while life stops being process and everything comes into still focus, like a telescope trained on a tableau. Even though I am 45 and have had children for 19 1/2 years (!!!), inside I still usually feel like a kid, my self-image stuck at about 21, …