In The Christian Science Monitor, Michael Spencer predicts a massive collapse of evangelical Christianity within ten years. “Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants.” And it gets worse. According to Spencer, there are a few reasons for evangelicalism’s dire prospects. Evangelicals focused too much on the culture war, and…
In the wake of our asteroid near-miss, people keep claiming that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. But we all know it was the Cybermen. Or time-traveling hunters. Here are science fiction’s best dinosaur-extinction theories. Time travelers hunted them to extinction: “Big game hunters from the future may have wiped out the dinosaurs,” suggests Arthur…
Author Robert J. Sawyer has been blogging from the set of Flash Forward, the new show based on his novel, and he says it’s looking good to debut on ABC next fall. Minor spoilers… In Flash Forward, as in Sawyer’s novel, everyone blacks out for a couple of minutes and experiences a vision of the…
The New York Times hosts an asteroid discussion, including the upside: StrangeHorizons.com’s Susan Marie Groppi points out how often asteroids save our space-opera heroes. And astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell advocates expanding outwards by mining near-Earth objects.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s classic Martian colonization novel Red Mars is available for download as a free PDF, and also available for the Amazon Kindle. The bad news is, you’ll have to buy the other two books in the Mars trilogy yourself.
“I see many of these post-apocalyptic movies warning us, but I see very little in the line of suggestions for post-apocalyptic living or specific life-changing prescriptions for our current situations… “What I would like to see is more movies where we see the apocalypse, but then we ALSO see how hard work, changing our life-style,…
Attention struggling writers! Tobias Buckell, bestselling author of Sly Mongoose, is posting a book of writing advice online, one chapter at a time, and there’s already enough stuff to save you from crushing mistakes. Buckell is collecting his blog entries about writing into a condensed book, which will eventually see print but is online as…
Spoiler outrage! There’s a Thor casting call, and new hints on Star Trek and Green Lantern. Plus crazy pics from Battlestar and Dollhouse. All that, plus Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Doctor Who, Lost, Supernatural and Reaper. Thor: Is Marvel looking to cast an unknown as Thor, in the wake of their money issues? In any case,…
A new science fiction imprint of Harper Collins, Angry Robot Books, has started up in the UK and will be publishing in the US and elsewhere starting in September. The first four Angry Robot titles sound super- promising, as well: Lauren Beukes‘ Moxyland follows four hipsters in a world where your virtual identity is as…
People often talk about which science fiction books would make good movies. But which movies would make for excellent novels? And who should write them, in an ideal world? Of course, plenty of original movies do get turned into books – but they’re usually rushed novelizations, written in a month by someone who’s juggling ten…
Says All-Star Superman writer Grant Morrison, “I’m not even sure if there is a superhero genre or if the idea of the superhero is a special chilli pepper-like ingredient designed to energize other genres.” Here’s the full quote: “The basic idea of the superhuman is a very malleable one – you can do ‘realistic’ superhero…
Pity the poor robots of R. Nicholas Kuszyk‘s art. Immobilized by tons of wires coming out of their bodies, they struggle with huge, unidentifiable balls of jagged metal. Update: gallery now works! Kuszyk’s exhibition, “Jammer Slammer: The Evalation,” represents the culmination of decade’s work on colorful and crazy, yet somewhat downer, robot images. It opened…
The first report on actual footage from James Cameron‘s decade-in-the-making alien odyssey Avatar is in, and it sounds… trippy. Minor spoilers ahead. A source tells 3-D movie blog MarketSaw there’s a 12-minute-long sequence where you see through the eyes of someone running through the forests of the planet Pandora in one of the “Avatars” that…
What’s Wolverine saying as he does a David Lee Roth leap in the forest? We know you’re the best there is at captioning photos. Plus new images show Agent Zero and The Blob. The two new pics of jumping Wolverine and Wolverine’s confrontation with Sabretooth come from IGN, and you can find them in higher…
Zachary Quinto explains how physical Star Trek‘s Spock gets, plus actors spill Green Hornet, G.I. Joe, Battlestar and Witch Mountain secrets. Plus Lost/Heroes set pics. And major spoilers on Caprica, Torchwood, Smallville, Chuck and Supernatural. Star Trek: Spock was originally supposed to have a hand-to-hand fight with around six people in the movie, but it…
You may have heard that Philip K. Dick‘s android head has gone missing and is roaming the country wreaking god knows what paranoia. Now a radio play promises to reveal the truth. The radio play Bring Me The Head Of Philip K. Dick just aired on BBC Radio Three today and is online as a…
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is firing on all cylinders again, with an episode that unravels more secrets of the future, and gives us a major turning point in the Riley-Jesse storyline. Killer-robot spoilers below. We’ve all been praying fervently for Rileys death for almost six months now, and it’s finally here. And yet the…
Tonight’s Dollhouse episode is clearly better than last week’s Britney-wants-to-die splashorama. We got an early review copy a while back, and here’s our spoiler-free exultation. When we begged Fox for review copies of Dollhouse episodes, they sent us copies of the first two episodes… plus tonight’s leather-clad imbroglio. It’s clearly better than last week’s stumble,…
Science can’t explain magic – but that doesn’t mean science can’t detect it. Modern fantasy is full of cool gizmos that can identify sources of mystical power… and even track them down. Here’s our list. Everything in Ghostbusters. This is the movie that perfected the magic-handling gadgets motif, from the “ghost sniffer” to the ghost…
Caitlín R. Kiernan leads us into eight worlds of mutilated bodies and uploaded brains in the wake of alien encounters, in her new story collection A Is For Alien. Spoilers ahead… In this collection, Kiernan’s famed gothic touch turns to science fiction, to prove the human race is smaller, and more malleable, than we ever…
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