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In some respects George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire seems an obvious fit with HBO. Their programmers have long gravitated toward ...

The sociologist C. Wright Mills concisely described a major problem facing those who must hold day jobs in his classic sociological study Wh...

With the success of the Jason Bourne film series , Hollywood has unsurprisingly taken an interest in bringing other Ludlum novels to the scr...

It has become something of a tradition for new space operas to proudly label themselves an un- Star Trek or an anti- Star Trek . Yet, the o...

Star Trek bashing is, of course, an old pastime among science fiction connoisseurs. Some of this is a genuine response to the artistic limi...

Lisa Richwine and Ronald Glover published an interesting article yesterday on Hollywood's gamble of making fewer films, with a greater ...

Terra Nova has now traced most of the trajectory of big-budget science fiction shows on the major American television networks (especially ...

I remember neoconservative Robert Kaplan lamenting in his essay "The Dangers of Peace" that the "Academy Awards ceremony has ...

Collected in THE MANY LIVES AND DEATHS OF JAMES BOND. Offering a history of the spy genre is famously difficult, in part because of the g...

In the early 1990s, a slew of technothrillers depicted Germany on the march again, like Larry Bond's Cauldron (1993), in which a Franc...