Letting go can be hard. I was reminded of that reading The Tick’s 20th Anniversary Special Edition with the first 3 issues of Mike Allred’s new Madman Atomic Comics. The Tick’s 20th Anniversary Special Edition reminded me how much I loved Ben Edlund’s first 12 issues of The […]
So much geekiness is at your disposal with Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions. Now you can conveniently view the relative sizes of Farscape’s Moya, a Vorlon transport from Babylon 5, the Eagle from Space 1999 and a rebel medical frigate from Star Wars. And that’s not even bringing in […]
The un-game? Real Lives is a simulation of life for most people in the world, kind of like an educational version of The Sims: “In my latest game, however, I’ve been born as a girl to an extremely poor family in rural China, and things are going to […]
When a writer puts a story down on paper, one version of all possible outcomes becomes the final version. The ending is part of a carefully constructed framework of theme and comment and all that good literary stuff, and it’s never going to change. For example, the evil […]
City on Fire and Days of Atonement author Walter Jon Williams has a eulogy up at his blog for Fred Saberhagen, who died a little over a week ago. Williams writes about Saberhagen’s unacknowledged influence on fantasy, science fiction and horror. And he tells a couple of nice […]
ShatnerVision: William Shatner’s videoblog. You know best whether you want to click it or not.
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The Cultural Gutter 