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The revival of Vin Diesel's career following his return to a starring role in the Fast and the Furious franchise in 2009 quickly led to ...

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006, pp. 287. In writing The Many Lives and Deaths of James Bond I found myself revisiting the va...

New York: Bantam Books, 2011, pp 1016. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has been widely admired for its sweep and scale, it...

Over at Locus Cory Doctorow recently published a piece on why science fiction movies "drive him nuts," in particular the big-bud...

Receiving plenty of attention on the web recently is science fiction critic Paul Kincaid's review of three science fiction anthologies ...

The denigration of the Star Wars prequels – Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999), Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), Episode III: Re...

Babylon 5 seems to have had a somewhat lower profile in its "afterlife" than might have been expected once upon a time, the show ...

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...