Paul J. Joseph joins our site and increases the count of science fiction free serialized audiobooks. He’s releasing his book, Marker Stone: There’s trouble on CMC-6 and it’s been brewing for a long time. The golden age of space travel and asteroid mining has ended almost before it began an...

Titles and short fiction I’m in the middle of what I’d like to pretend is a raging debate, but it’s more like a desultory email discourse, into titles. For complicated reasons I did some editing for an anthology while somebody else was ill. Somebody else is now back, so I’ve stepped out of t...

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Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...

Over at http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/03/10/this-house-believes-we-are-all-keynesians-now/?disqus_reply=7087846#disqus-claim, Will Wilkinson writes: Brad DeLong and Luigi Zingales debate it at Economist.com. DeLong’s opening statement too effectively arrays a huge amount of intel...

The beautiful thing about science fiction is the mystery surrounding the premise. Since the writer gets to create the world, but can’t simply create it from scratch, there’s usually an interesting adherence to reality that acts as the anchor for whatever strange creatures and new physics...

Movie: Watchmen * Trailer * Official Site In Theaters: March 6, 2009 Runtime: 163 minutes Directed by: Zack Snyder MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language Gecko Rating: I was especially interested in reviewing "Watchmen" this week, because I knew it was q...

By Dennis D. McDonald This movie is 1000% better than it should be. Credit the director (Takeshi Yamakazi) and his top-notch crew and cast. They shamelessly steal elements from numerous previous movies (Terminator, Independence Day, ET, Webmaster, Predator, Matrix, Timecop, Transformers, etc. etc.) ...

By Dennis D. McDonald This 1957 black and white science fiction movie is nowhere near classics like This Island Earth or Forbidden Planet in production values, but it holds up surprisingly well, if you give it a chance. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid. I dimly remember thinking even back th...

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