Raritania

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...

As fans of the James Bond film series know, this is the fiftieth anniversary of the franchise's launch with 1962's Dr. No . Naturall...

In some respects George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire seems an obvious fit with HBO. Their programmers have long gravitated toward ...

The sociologist C. Wright Mills concisely described a major problem facing those who must hold day jobs in his classic sociological study Wh...

With the success of the Jason Bourne film series , Hollywood has unsurprisingly taken an interest in bringing other Ludlum novels to the scr...

It has become something of a tradition for new space operas to proudly label themselves an un- Star Trek or an anti- Star Trek . Yet, the o...

Star Trek bashing is, of course, an old pastime among science fiction connoisseurs. Some of this is a genuine response to the artistic limi...

Lisa Richwine and Ronald Glover published an interesting article yesterday on Hollywood's gamble of making fewer films, with a greater ...