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Saturday, May 13, 2017
On the Cusp of a Post-Scarcity Age?
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It is very clear that we have not entered a post-scarcity age with regard to the more material essentials of life--energy, food, housing. We...
Friday, May 12, 2017
Review:
Village of Stars
, by Paul Stanton
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New York: M.S. Mill & Company and William Morrow & Co., 1960, pp. 241. Paul Stanton's Village of Stars is interesting as an e...
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Remember Paul Stanton?
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Arthur David Beaty flew with the Royal Air Force in World War II and then after the war became a pilot with the British Overseas Airway Corp...
Thursday, May 11, 2017
What Ever Happened to Gold Eagle Publishing?
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The Mack "the Executioner" Bolan novels that began with 1969's War Against the Mafia are regularly credited with founding the...
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Understanding the Word "Cool"
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Certainly one of the more frustrating words for those trying to work out what the words we hear every minute of every day actually mean is &...
Toward a History of Video Gaming
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While researching the history of genre science fiction I found that its historians manage to produce a relatively coherent picture of it thr...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Thoughts on the Box Office:
XXX: The Return of Xander Cage
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The performance of XXX: The Return of Xander Cage at the box office is a familiar story now--a film not very warmly received in the U.S. di...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
What Ever Happened to the Japanese Microchip Industry?
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David E. Sanger wrote in the New York Times in 1986 that the American electronics industry . . . has virtually lost the entire memory mark...
James Bond for the YA Crowd?
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It has long been impossible to pay much attention to contemporary science fiction and fantasy and not be hugely aware of the presence of you...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Review:
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
, by Chris Kohler
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Indianapolis, IN: Bradygames, 2004, pp. 312. Chris Kohler's book, as the title promises, is concerned with the revolution wrought by J...
Sunday, February 5, 2017
A Fragment on Fan Writing
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In researching Star Wars in Context I was time and again surprised to find that answers to many fairly obvious questions about the Star War...
Book Review:
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
, by David Edgerton
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 445. In his book Warfare State , David Edgerton made the case that British historiography has...
Notes on
Kirby Buckets Warped
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I'm just as surprised as anyone to be writing about this show. I was scarcely aware of the existence of Kirby Buckets until just a fe...
SFTV for the Younger Crowd: A Few Thoughts
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When writing my article "The Golden Age of Science Fiction Television: Looking Back at SFTV the Long 1990s," (or revising it for ...
Making Sense of B.O.
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We hear all the time about the economics of filmmaking--that this movie cost this much, that it made that much. But a lot of the talk strike...
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