Raritania

The denigration of the Star Wars prequels – Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999), Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), Episode III: Re...

Babylon 5 seems to have had a somewhat lower profile in its "afterlife" than might have been expected once upon a time, the show ...

Originally Published In THE FIX , January 1, 2009 Ray Kurzweil’s 1999 classic, The Age of Spiritual Machines , devoted a full chapter to h...

I was recently surprised to find that the Internet Movie Data Base lists a Bulldog Drummond movie as in development for 2013 . There is so ...

Recently reviewing the stats for this blog, I was struck by the number of web surfers who found their way to it looking for information abou...

Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976, pp. 467. I first encountered Julian Jaynes ideas about bicameralism through Jack Dann's classic The Ma...

Half a year ago I discussed the contemporary use - and much more often, misuse, of the word "lifestyle" on this blog. Your stand...

Humanity, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica tells us, is Fallen, progress an illusion that dies when the creations of that "flawed c...

It now appears that Chinese company DMG will invest nine figures in the production of Iron Man 3 – an unprecedented collaboration between a...

I have at times wondered why, a century after the event, the sinking of the Titanic continues to receive as much attention as it does. Ther...