I already read this issue of Ultimate X-Men. Professor X sends Wolverine to kill the kid, because only Logan is immune to his powers.
I already read this issue of Ultimate X-Men. Professor X sends Wolverine to kill the kid, because only Logan is immune to his powers.
It would be impossible to even approach summing up the totality of Johan Cruyff’s unparalleled influence and…
Science fiction loves itself some single-biome planets. Tatooine from Star Wars. Dune from Dune. Hoth from Star Wars.…
For my money, Truly, Madly, Deeply is Alan Rickman’s greatest work. The story of a man who dies, but returns to his…
Like oversized fishing bobbers used as flower vases, these 20 trees planted in colorful buoys are designed to add…
Science Fiction authors have made the Moon a popular destination for centuries now: our closest celestial neighbor…
When this novel wins the Hugo and is counted among the best SF novels ever written, maybe we can talk about it doing a “much better job” than Heinlein’s novel. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a master class in world building and story telling - if you think the latest novel-of-the-month is its better, you’ll be wrong…
Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. Oh sorry, that version was already published in 1961.
Everybody loves to dive into a pile of books that spin out an epic, immersive storyline. There’s nothing more…
The way we teach sex education in the United States is such a crazy-quilt of curricula that it’s hard to know what’s…
Welcome to planet Zalintyre, I mean Bilbao, Spain.
This month Man from UNCLE hit theaters, the latest in a long line of movie adaptations of sixties TV shows. And like…
Netflix announced via Twitter that their science fiction show, Sense8, will return for a second season.
Science fiction and fantasy contain lots of stories that bend the walls of reality—so it should come as no surprise…
OMG I did the same thing with the Rain Wilders trilogy and passed them over when I first saw them. BUT - big mistake!! Malta and Reyn and Seldon are all in the Rain Wilder trilogy, and the deserted city from the skill pillars in the original Assassin trilogy is the final destination for them. Not to mention, this is…
You could make a pretty good argument for Charles de Lint.
Criminal Intent gets close.
My favorite thing about Columbo was that he always let the perps do 90% of the work in sending themselves to jail.
The brilliant thing about Columbo is that the mystery is not who the murderer is - it’s how Columbo is going to catch them. This is what sets Columbo as a TV series head and shoulders above most TV detective shows.