Sorry, I'm fresh out of inspiration for orbital mind control lasers and death ray jokes. So here's a picture of ancient science fiction cheese as you guys love that stuff.

"The I-400 was the most advanced submarine of its time."

Wasn't the "Golden Age" the 30's and 40's? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ag…

If they drew the full cover including the spine art on all of them it would be nothing to print one out and put it on the books I already own. I would also buy the Fahrenheit 451 version on the Arty Musings site in a second if it's actually for sale, I could not tell. That one looks remarkable. That is a real match…

First things first: a number of people who commented here need to read my post more carefully, because what they say I said is not what I said....

Second, the problems with the Kowalski-lets-go scene have been well-documented elsewhere; and starfield rotation and angular momentum do not constitute a "save". I'll defer…

OK, remember when the subject of John Boorman's idea for The Lord of the Rings came up, and I was all for it because I thought it would at least be interesting, unlike Peter Jackson's snoozefest, and everyone jumped my case and accused me of trolling? Well, Jodorowsky's Dune would have been a similarly interesting…

What an original concept!

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Does anyone else remember the Van Gogh sequence from Kurosawa's Dreams. Martin Scorsese played Van Gogh. That's a great movie

The grimmer possibility has been referred to as "a naive bird chirping in a tree" - civilizations emerge all the time, but one of two things occur: Either they loudly announce their presence, in which case they are taken down by the same probes that find them (dual-function); or wisely they stay "dark" and…

I also recommend the great Soviet film Planet of Storms. It was recycled into a couple Corman films, but the original Russian film is beautiful.