HOWARD THE DUCK: The Greatest Movie Ever Made?
A confession: I love HOWARD THE DUCK
Japanese Cyber-Horror
Japanese Cyberpunk: for those familiar with the films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Shozin Fukui, those words have a very particular connotation, promising an unflinching exploration of the darkest extremes of technology and madness
Four Essential Books by Michael Blumlein
Michael Blumlein, a San Francisco-based doctor, is one of the most distinctive horror/sci fi writers on the scene, as evinced by three absolutely stunning novels and an equally dazzling short story collection
R.I.P. Michael Crichton
Here’s an author with whom I’ve had my differences over the years: the brilliant but erratic Michael Crichton, who on November 4, 2008 passed away at age 66
The Twisted Fiction of David J. Skal
I know David J. Skal best as a writer of dark fiction, and one of the most distinctive such authors on the scene
THE POWER
CARRIE, SCANNERS and quite a few other psychic horror fests are prefigured in this novel, the first by the famed pulp novelist Frank M. Robinson
ROUGH BEASTS
As the title warns, the stories collected here are from the early days of Harlan Ellison’s career, specifically the late 1950s
VACATION
Fans of the late Philip K. Dick will appreciate this hallucinatory first novel, as will all those unafraid of challenging, thoughtful writing
QUEEN OF BLOOD
A novelization that deserves credit for being as readable as it is, given that it was cobbled together in an extremely short timeframe
THE MAKING OF DUNE
DUNE is of course the world famous science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that was turned into a hellaciously expensive 1984 Universal Pictures movie. This is the studio-approved book about the production of that film…