Charlie Jane Anders shares a space opera reading list and you should peruse it! “We are living in a new golden age of space opera. People have proclaimed the death of this vital subgenre many times over the decades — but like a deep space probe upgraded by […]
We all know what we thought before we did that thing we really shouldn’t have done. We had a reason. Maybe it wasn’t a good reason, but unless we’re in an existentialist novel it wasn’t completely random and without motivation. Our understanding of why we do things is […]
Jim’s Red Book chronicles the relationship between Jim Henson and Douglas Adams, including a proposed television special about computers, “The Muppet Institute of Technology.” There’s more about their collaboration in film and videogames as well as some design art. (via io9)
A surprisingly lucid and yet still impossibly nerdy look at The Top Ten Sci-FI Films That Never Existed: “There was a movie that perfectly captured the Douglas Adams experience, the combination of bitter sarcasm and sharp imagination, the droll British wit and whale-exploding slapstick that infused his novels. […]
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