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Westport, CN: Praeger, 2001, pp. 227. I initially became familiar with Jeremy Black through his historical writings, which include a numbe...

With Labor Day behind us, the summer movie season is over. Once more, the published statistics present a contrast between rising revenues...

By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published in the New York Review of Science Fiction 23.9 (May 2011), pp. 19-20. Science fiction reader...

The term "Mary Sue" (and its male counterpart, "Gary Stu") typically refers to idealized characters that seem to functio...

Reviewed By Nader Elhefnawy Originally published at The Future Fire Reviews , March 24, 2011 M-Brane Press, the publisher of M-Brane SF sci...

Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2006, pp. 274. Toby Young's second memoir (the first of course being How to Lose Friends and Alienate Pe...

Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series has had an exceptionally unfortunate history on the big screen, each of the two attempts to film one of...

I first encountered Clive Cussler circa 1993 through Sahara , which was then his latest novel. I went right through it and subsequently trac...

Last summer I watched a handful of episodes of The Big Bang Theory all the way through, then gave up on the show entirely, not just irritat...

Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain, Inc., 2004, pp. 206. I first encountered Michael Moorcock's classic study of epic fantasy many years ago, whe...

Continuing in the vein of "2010 in review," Moviefone 's Gary Susman offers his take on the year's films , and it is far f...

New York: Random House, 2010, pp. 334. The protagonist of Gary Shteyngart's bestselling novel Super Sad True Love Story is Leonard Ab...

The success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is exactly the kind of hit that makes me suspicious - a book showered with acclaim by ...

On last Sunday's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list , Jonathan Franzen, Nicholas Sparks and Stieg Larsson are all on top,...

Alan Stanley Blair recently penned a piece at Airlock Alpha on the boom in movies (and television) based on superhero comics titled "E...