Short Fiction Review: Apex Magazine Issue #39
Author’s Note: When I was a teenager, I had subscriptions to Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. As well as novels, a lot of what formed my early...
View ArticleShort Fiction Review: Clarkesworld, Issue #72
Magazine/Issue: Clarkesworld, Issue #72, September 2012 Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: Neil Clarke Author’s Note: This is the second in a monthly series of science fiction and fantasy magazine reviews. My...
View ArticleShort Fiction Review: Lightspeed, Issue #30
Magazine/Issue: Lightspeed, November 2012, Issue #30 Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: John Joseph Adams Cover/Gallery Artist: Erik Schumacher Author’s Note: This is the third in a (roughly) monthly series of...
View ArticleShort Fiction Review: Shimmer, Issue #16
Magazine/Issue: Shimmer, Issue #16 Publisher: Beth Wodzinski (twitter: @Bethwodzinski) Fiction Editor: Catherine Tobler (twitter: @ECthetwit) Front and back cover: Kurt Higgins/Zelda Devon Author’s...
View ArticleInterview: Steve Davidson of Amazing Stories
Over the course of the last eighty-seven years, Amazing Stories magazine has traversed the far reaches of science fiction publishing on a journey best described by its own moniker. Since Hugo...
View ArticleShort Fiction Review: Nightmare, Issue #14
Magazine/Issue: Nightmare, November 2013, Issue #14 Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: John Joseph Adams Cover/Gallery Artist: Chris B. Murray Author’s Note: After a hiatus of a few months, this is the fifth...
View ArticleSFF Abroad Movie Review: Tai Chi Hero
Tai Chi Zero caught me a little off guard. Though not as good as it could have been, I was won over by its cool ideas, and a cast, crew, and writers who were clearly excited to be involved (Riddick,...
View ArticleHoliday Special: Five Costume Ideas for the Truly Desperate — Halloween 2013
Welcome to the second edition of our annual Foes of Reality Top 5 Do-It-Yourself Science Fiction and Fantasy Costume Ideas Based on Awkward Portraits Snagged from Google Images, a tradition that...
View ArticleReview: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline Publisher: Broadway Books Genre: Science Fiction My bet is that a lot of people stumble onto the world of Ready Player One the same way I did: through someone telling them that...
View ArticleSteve Mattsson: PHRENIC’s Frank Taylor Speaks
Steve Mattsson is one of those rare individuals who is literally capable of doing anything. At various times Steve has climbed Mount Whitney, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Kilimanjaro (among others);...
View ArticleThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Review
After watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug this morning I had what might be described as “an epiphany of the obvious.” Peter Jackson is the most gratuitous film maker working in the medium...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Review: Astro City – Life in the Big City
Writer: Kurt Busiek Artist: Brent E. Anderson Color art: Steve Busccellato and Electric Crayon: Covers: Alex Ross Publisher: DC With Astro City’s new run at Vertigo (must… check… out…) it seemed like...
View Articleher – Film Review
For a genre that is supposed to be a “literature of ideas,” surprisingly few science fiction and fantasy films seem willing to engage with ideas in a meaningful way. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug...
View ArticleShort Fiction Review: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #138
Magazine/Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #138 Publisher/Editor-In-Chief: Scott H. Andrews Cover/Gallery Artists: Stefan Meisl Author’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of science fiction and...
View ArticleDid Clark Gregg Just Kill Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
I made a really dumb mistake this morning while tweeting with fellow Foe Steven Long. For some reason, my brain decided to take Clark Gregg’s name and reverse it to Gregg Clark. Hopefully my geek cred...
View ArticleReview: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Author: Karen Lord (Twitter: @Karen_Lord) Publisher/Publication Date: Jo Fletcher Books/Quercus (31 January 2013) and Del Rey/Random House (12 February 2013) Genre: Science Fiction When I sat down to...
View ArticleReview: Between Two Thorns
Author: Emma Newman (Split Worlds Site, Twitter) Publisher: Angry Robot Genre: Urban Fantasy I started reading fantasy as a kid and grew into a love of science fiction (facilitated by high school...
View ArticleMovies / Island of Misfit Films: Lair of the White Worm (1988)
“After the lapse of a considerable time, the doctor who had been summoned made his appearance…” – Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm Writer/director Ken Russell (1927-2011) presented some notable...
View ArticleBuckaroo Banzai Anniversary Special: Island of Misfit Films – Part 1
Those of you familiar with this blog already know that I am a shameless supporter of the 1984 science fiction farce film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! Some would probably...
View ArticleBuckaroo Banzai Anniversary Special: Island of Misfit Films – Part 2
The following article is a reprint of “The Saga of a Hollywood Orphan Revisited” from the New York Film Festival/New York Comic Con edition of World Watch One. The article is a revised and expanded...
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