Raritania

The Mack "the Executioner" Bolan novels that began with 1969's War Against the Mafia are regularly credited with founding the...

Certainly one of the more frustrating words for those trying to work out what the words we hear every minute of every day actually mean is ...

While researching the history of genre science fiction I found that its historians manage to produce a relatively coherent picture of it thr...

The performance of XXX: The Return of Xander Cage at the box office is a familiar story now--a film not very warmly received in the U.S. di...

David E. Sanger wrote in the New York Times in 1986 that the American electronics industry . . . has virtually lost the entire memory mark...

It has long been impossible to pay much attention to contemporary science fiction and fantasy and not be hugely aware of the presence of you...

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...