Tag: Science Fiction
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More 1950’s Sci-Fi
When I was a kid, back in the early 60’s, this movie scared me half to death. I recently saw it again and realized how silly it was, but I can’t come close to describing it as well as this review from Atomic Monsters! “Just when it seems the crew is powerless to stop this…
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A Sublime Cinema Dreamscape: DVD Savant on Invaders From Mars
From DVD Talk, a reviewer known as DVD Savant (apparently a modest and unassuming guy named Glenn Erickson , as he rarely seems to write under his own name), has written a very enjoyable two-part review on Invaders From Mars (1953). Part One describes how the film is often derided as a low-budget kid’s movie. In Part Two (my favorite),…
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Close Encounters with Ray Bradbury
Lower right: Bradbury and Hamlin, from the collection of Bradley Mason Hamlin It so happens that three writers I greatly admire live in California. Two of them know me. They are Brad Hamlin and Jay “jota” Mejia. As far as I know, those two have never met one another, but they have, on separate occaisions, met the third and most famous of the trio –…
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Is What Cyberpunk?
I can give you a vague definition of cyberpunk with terms like “noir future” and “distopia,” but Rudy Rucker says it better and really whets my appetite to know more. Here’s an excerpt from What Is Cyberpunk: Proximately, “cyberpunk” is a word coined by Gardner Dozois to describe the fiction of William Gibson. Gibson’s novel…