I read a lot of sci-fi in my younger years, but mostly short stories. To me the short story was sci-fi's native form-- present an idea, ...

Maurice Masse's passport to Magonia, July 1, 1965 This series -- which started as a look at comic book sorcerers and their real-world ...

I don't get asked much who my favorite superhero is, but the answer's a no-brainer: it's Doctor Strange.  

We've looked at Jack Kirby several times in the past here, most notably in his startlingly accurate (if not often allegorical) predicti...

In my previous post I'd mentioned how the prospect of doing The Outer Limits justice was too much for me at the moment, given my cu...

Yeah, yeah, yeah- we've seen it all before ... Well, my 2010 kind of sucked. How about yours? 

  Perception has been a major part of what I puzzle over on this blog. Specifically, how perception determines reality or at least how we d...

Have you heard about Dark Jupiter? It seems that we're closer to isolating the Sun's "companion," a giant planet that is ...

Speaking of The Outer Limits, we just heard an announcement that a special UN office is to be set to greet extraterrestrials should the...

In the previous post, we looked at what reads like the minutes from an technoccult ritual in which young hippies contact alien artificial i...

If I were to create a new religion, I'd do so as a performance art exercise. Congregants would be told from the start that this was al...

  One of the great and dangerous myths of America is that the "New World" was settled by brave and devout pilgrims, yearning to br...

Spend Good Friday in Vancouver with The Outer Limits as they do their own spin on Solaris . A heaping helping of Secret Sun memes on hand,...

No one accused James Cameron of excessive originality with the screenplay to Avatar . But excessive originality is Hollywood-speak for ...

Telekinesis, remote viewing, psychic assassins, Perseus playing "Charon," Ezri Dax, filming locations on loan from Millennium an...

So the missus and I sit down to watch  Caprica and I notice this random episode of The New Outer Limits that aired in January sitting on t...

  Well, a lot of you have seen the BBC Superpowers promo by now. It's fascinating not only on the face of it - meaning the alien subte...

   Bruce Rux explained on his epic Binnall of America interview-a-thon that the original Outer Limits series was a clearinghouse for UFO c...

What do you get when you cross Lovecraft's Chthulu mythos and Heinlein's Puppet Masters and throw in a dash or two of Darker Than Y...