Raritania

Indianapolis, IN: Bradygames, 2004, pp. 312. Chris Kohler's book, as the title promises, is concerned with the revolution wrought by J...

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...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 445. In his book Warfare State , David Edgerton made the case that British historiography has...

I'm just as surprised as anyone else to be writing about this show. I was scarcely aware of the existence of Kirby Buckets until just...

When writing my article "The Golden Age of Science Fiction Television: Looking Back at SFTV the Long 1990s," (or revising it for ...

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...

Like "lifestyle" the word "deserve" has come to be grossly misused, overused and abused, replacing many another word an...

The plot of William Haggard's Slow Burner (reviewed here ) centers on a British program to develop civil nuclear power in the hopes of ...

I remember that when reading Ian Fleming's James Bond novels I was struck by how much the character and his outlook, his associated imag...

Boston: Little, Brown, 1965, pp. 192. WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Until recently I had read only one novel by William Haggard, mainly because ...

New York: University of Cambridge Press, 2006, pp. 382. Before delving into a discussion of Edgerton's book, it is important to rememb...

Looking back it is clear that Star Wars was not the first science fiction film--nor the first space-themed science fiction megahit. ( 2001 ...

I first saw Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958) on Bravo before its lamentable turn to particularly disgusting versions of the ...

Recently thinking about the G.I. Joe cartoon I was struck by how strong the similarities and connections to the Bond films are --G.I. Joe ar...

New York: Putnam, 2002, pp. 272. Just as after the over-the-top High Time to Kill Raymond Benson swung all the way around to a more groun...