THE ORCHID CAGE
A novel that reads like a Philip K. Dick potboiler with a hard science overlay
WIR
The future: civilization has become a sterile and mechanized drudge whose residents are identified by numbers and prize collectivity above all else
Exploring THE NIGHT LAND
A 1912 novel that H.P. Lovecraft praised as “one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written”
Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
What is there to say about writer/gadfly Harlan Ellison? Frankly, not a whole lot that hasn’t already been said
THE DARK PLANET
Comic book artists rarely ever make for good filmmakers–see this experimental sci fi reverie co-directed by the renowned comic book writer/illustrator Richard Corben
TECHNOTISE: EDIT AND I
A most unexpected offering from Serbia, which isn’t known for elaborate animated science fiction features
SPACE ODYSSEY: STANLEY KUBRICK, ARTHUR C. CLARKE, AND THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE
Appearing just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, this book can lay claim to being the definitive resource on the making of that classic
2018: The Year in Bedlam
Welcome to the 2018 edition of my annual Year in Bedlam THE BEST movie round-up
READY PLAYER ONE
People have been raving about READY PLAYER ONE since it first appeared, and now, with the film adaptation about to be released, it’s once again overtaken the public consciousness
ANOTHER EARTH
Here’s a neglected science fiction themed indie that deserves a reappraisal