Raritania

In the English-speaking world, and in particular, the United States, we are far more accustomed to exporting culture than importing it, and ...

The Internet Review of Science Fiction , about which I have been blogging monthly lately, and where I published ten pieces in the last three...

By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published in the INTERNET REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION, June 2009 Collected in AFTER THE NEW WAVE: SCIENCE FICTI...

SyFy goes the animated comedic route again with Outer Space Astronauts , premiering at 9:30 P.M. EST tomorrow (December 8). I have a soft sp...

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD. Picture this: a mixed group of military and civilian personnel (including a senior politician from back home) broug...

By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published in FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION , Summer 2006, pp. 34-46. While Robert H...

New York: Prometheus Books, 2007, pp. 370. Michael Moorcock’s recent collection, The Metatemporal Detective , contains eleven stories cent...

I've seen SyFy's Warehouse 13 , and had some time to think about it. At first I was hesitant, all the more so because of the initi...

Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003, pp. 368. As those of you who know anything about me might guess, I am an unlikely reader of this sort ...

While not as funny as other Simon Pegg comedies like Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz , and certainly no stand-out for originality of concept,...