From a certain angle, J.G. Ballard can be said to formulaic. He loved to take a handful of characters, throw them into an unfamiliar situat...

Caveat: I returned to video games circa 2016 after decades away. I missed everything of the Playstation 2 and 3 generations. This includes...

It's ironic that today that the devices and effects of what is commonly associated with 'science fiction' are bleeding out and b...

For the past decade, I have been reading dozens upon dozens upon dozens of books per year, mostly speculative fiction, and always for better...

Javier Bardeem won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in his role as Anton Chigurh in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Count...

Dystopian fiction—a dime a dozen these days, right? Rising global temperatures, extreme right-wing governments, zombies, nuclear war, autho...

I am always on the lookout for video games that are developmental (or at least not mindless) for my children. (If adults can also play, all...

What if you were handed the following task: survey the whole spectrum of science fiction short stories, and from that select the most repres...

  As with every summer, it's vacation time!  As such, there will be a two-week hiatus on the blog as I enjoy the sun (hopefully!) and fr...

For the unaware, there is small handful of magazines which have clung tight to the decades of evolving genre, sustaining their presence in r...