Raritania

I was one of those who saw the TV adaptation of Robert J. Sawyer's Flashforward before I read the book. But I did get to it not long ...

No, probably not. But I do. I remember it because back in the '90s the terms of the publication of Steve Alten's Meg was the kind...

New York: Putnam, 2003, pp. 496. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Clive Cussler's Trojan Odyssey marks the end of an era in many ways. Not ...

Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 1957, pp. 319. It is a commonplace that the literary genre of the novel is distinguished...

Back in tenth grade I was first introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald, by way of The Great Gatsby . I wasn't all that impressed with the boo...

Back when I wrote the first edition of The Many Lives and Deaths of James Bond I included in the appendix a brief essay discussing Britain...

Recently I ran across Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home again--the bit where Kirk and Spock walk around twentieth century San Francisco and the...

Starhunter appeared at the tail end of the '90s-era science fiction television boom , and came into that long-crowded field quietly, at...

Some years ago the philosopher Terence Blake raised the question of "philo-fiction," fiction which uses philosophy the way science...

NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...

Those who have paid any attention to film history know how high concept and the action/science fiction blockbuster arrived in Hollywood in t...

WARNING: SPOILERS I recently saw Alien: Covenant . I didn't expect much. I got even less. To be fair, the Alien series has not be...

Hollywood has always been quick to remake movies. Astonishingly it made three versions of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon between...

One of the classics one becomes familiar with studying International Relations is E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis , widely cons...

Picking up Justin Wyatt's High Concept I (like most people who pay much attention to this sort of thing these days, I suppose) already ...