Raritania

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,...

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

The documentary Heckler (2007), co-produced by and starring Jamie Kennedy, is about the "heckling" of artists (in the main comedi...

The widely anticipated success of J.J. Abrams's recent reboot of Star Trek has of course impressed many observers (like the "Box ...

In case you've ever wondered what ever happened to the Seaquest version of the future (in which the oceans of 2018 were thoroughly colo...

In the course of a few recent projects, I found myself wondering "What will the first decade of the twenty-first century be remembered ...

By Nader Elhefnawy The rise in the price of oil during the past decade, and especially the last five years, sparked a great deal of talk abo...