Sci Fi

Science Fiction and Fantasy in TV, Movies, Books, etc.

A Pretty Neat Trick

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Howard Tayler has kept the fans of the military/SF strip Schlock Mercenarie’s waiting a week to see a pretty lieutenant’s new hair style. Good trick!

Van Gogh's "Wheatfield"

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I have to send more spam for work today. Some more styles we’re trying to get rid of. The last time, just for fun, I put the pictures of the outfits we’re hawking in front of a Renoir landscape… and people liked it… they made our clothes look sunnier, classier… I thought I’d try that … Read more

The Da Vinci Code

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Being sick has been a great opportunity to catch up on my reading. And I’ve been wanting to get into Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” for a long time. For one thing, he’s from my home state of New Hampshire, so that puts him right up there with my other favorite New Hampshire novelists, … Read more

"The Golden Man"

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The next movie based on a Philip K. Dick story is to be called… “Next”. I haven’t read this story (or don’t remember it), about a mutant product of a radioactive war who is gold-colored, sexually irresistable, impossible to kill and a Threat To Humanity. I wonder how the presumeably soon-to-be-released animated “A Scanner Darkly” … Read more

Shaking Hands with Aliens

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So you’re meeting some Japanese friends for the first time. And you want to make a good impression and show you are aware of other cultures. Do you shake their hands, or bow and exchange business cards? This bugs me when I watch movies. In the SF Channel version of “Dune”, when William Hurt meets … Read more