Raritania

Since the 1970s North Americans have typically gone to the movies four to five times a year. When the figure falls toward the low end of the...

It was with some dismay that I heard about the cancellation of the TNT show Leverage , one of the few shows (and fewer non-genre shows) I...

Frank Herbert's Dune , according to a poll taken by Locus Magazine, the results of which were published Saturday , part of a larger ...

Reflecting on the likely response (long as well as short-term) of audiences to the release of The Hobbit my first thought was for what migh...

As with most of the young adult-oriented WB fantasy dramas of the late 1990s and early 2000s ( Charmed , Angel , Supernatural ) I missed the...

Tom Clancy is widely remembered as the writer Patrick Anderson hailed in the New York Times as the "king of the techno-thriller,...

Here are what I think of as the five most important science fiction books (and in some cases, series' of books) that I have read. By tha...

Back in 2004 Jeremy Rifkin published a book titled The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the Americ...

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007, pp. 292. In The Other End noted cyberpunk and horror writer John Shirley turned his att...

The James Bond franchise has been global success, but has also had a very particular niche in postwar British culture: the lone hero as a so...