Oct 25 2008Save10/25/08Sleep Dealer Serves Notice In New York PremiereAlex Carnevale10Last night at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn Sleep Dealer made its post-Sundance debut at the Imagine Science Film…
Oct 24 2008Save10/24/08Jenny Holzer's Textual StructuresAlex Carnevale9 American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer converts the futuristic military-industrial complex into strange, alien art…
Oct 24 2008Save10/24/08Hulu Gives You the Cheesy Scifi Archive ExperienceAlex Carnevale28Weird Science, Sliders, The Outer Limits and The Pretender all together in one place for the first time. Yes, we…
Books10/23/08Oct 23 2008SaveBooks10/23/08BooksThe Birth of the Movie Tie-InAlex Carnevale6This month's issue of Poets and Writers features a long chat with publishing vet Chuck Adams, who was one of the…
Books10/23/08Oct 23 2008SaveBooks10/23/08BooksWhen Isaac Asimov Burned Robert HeinleinAlex Carnevale37Personalities don't get much bigger than Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, two giants of the genre. Though their…
Books10/22/08Oct 22 2008SaveBooks10/22/08BooksIs Algis Budrys What SF Should Have Been?Alex Carnevale11 Algis Budrys is a writer's writer, admired more for his style in the genre than his visionary ideas. The…
Climate change10/22/08Oct 22 2008SaveClimate change10/22/08Climate changeSpectators at a Show for the Dying WorldAlex Carnevale11 This image of a whale's bleached bones in Antarctica documents the disturbingly beautiful effect of climate change…
Oct 22 2008Save10/22/08The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The MovieAlex Carnevale14Last night, New York's Imagine Science Film Festival featured four short films about mad scientists — but they left…
Books10/21/08Oct 21 2008SaveBooks10/21/08BooksFuturians Were The Pick-Up Artists of Nerd LegendAlex Carnevale14The Futurian Science Literary Society held its first meeting in September of 1938. Composed of literary…
Books10/21/08Oct 21 20081Books10/21/08BooksRichard K. Morgan on the Failures of Capitalism and the Success of Science FictionAlex Carnevale34Richard K. Morgan burst on the literary scene six short years ago with the publication of the futuristic noir…
Oct 21 2008Save10/21/08Christian Slater's Split Personalities Have Different Erotic NeedsAlex Carnevale10What the family man wants, the family man gets. What the family man's alter ego wants, he gets from the family man's…
Oct 20 2008Save10/20/08Lucas/Spielberg-Nostalgia Flick 77 Should Be SeriesAlex Carnevale4More than five years has passed since principal photography on 77, an indie comedy about Steven Spielberg and George…
Books10/20/08Oct 20 2008SaveBooks10/20/08BooksShould SF Writers Boycott Borders?Alex Carnevale68For any author, getting a book sold at a major chain is an important way to attract new readers and move copies. But…
Oct 20 2008Save10/20/08Natural History Museum Stuffs Animals for Climate ChangeAlex Carnevale10How can the American Museum of Natural History convey the looming threat of climate change with its new exhibition…
Oct 19 2008Save10/19/08Jules Verne's Vision of The Future Meets With Devastating RejectionAlex Carnevale8 When Jules Verne submitted his novel Paris in the Twentieth Century to longtime publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in…
Oct 19 2008Save10/19/08We Want Our Green Lantern To Be CommonAlex Carnevale38As the Gunsmith in Wanted, rapper Common may have looked more wooden than co-star Morgan Freeman, but with a role in …
Oct 18 2008Save10/18/08The Ugly Fight For Andre Norton's LegacyAlex Carnevale15"I just don't want to be forgotten." It's what Andre Norton told people before she left this world in 2005. With an…
Oct 18 2008Save10/18/08Ephemerisle Is Waterworld With a More Realistic BudgetAlex Carnevale22Last Friday, Milton Friedman's grandson Patri Friedman and his fledgling Seasteading Institute had their first ever…
Oct 18 2008Save10/18/08Sanctuary Triumphs By Reinventing Itself As Geek NoirAlex Carnevale11Sanctuary totally redeemed itself last night with the best episode of its short run on the SciFi Channel. Dispensing…
Oct 17 2008Save10/17/08Sloan Sky Survey Helps You Sail Through the Universe, Futurama-StyleAlex Carnevale2One of the greatest moments in the animated series Futuruma comes in "Godfellas" when Bender is sailing through the…