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April 15, 2014
Want to buy the world’s most haunted island?
Off the coast of Venice lies the small island of Poveglia. If you have several million lying around, it can be yours. But there’s a catch. It comes occupied. With ghosts. The history of this island is fascinating. The Venetians and Genoese fought over this island in the middle ages, but the real trouble started with […]
April 13, 2014
See this movie: Oculus
Oculus is a cunning, tough horror movie that will leave you unsettled. When we last left Karen Gillan, the Scottish woman with the big eyes who played Amy Pond in Doctor Who, she was staring at the weeping angels to avoid being sucked back in time (spoiler: she wasn’t successful). Now, in Oculus, the actress is […]
April 10, 2014
Was Battlestar Galactica too religious?
Is there a role for faith in sci-fi? I say of course, but the battle simmers. This recent post from a Netflix-sponsored blog brings up the issue of religion as discussed in the 2000s now-classic series Battlestar Galactica. The four-season-long reboot of the 1970s show was well written, well acted, and wasn’t afraid to take […]
April 8, 2014
Helix: the autopsy
This unexpected SyFy show proved to be worth the journey. When I first saw the promos for the SyFy channel’s original series Helix I was intrigued. The premise: a group of CDC scientists travel to a remote arctic lab following a zombie-like outbreak. Initially what drew me were the zombies. What turned me off was […]
April 2, 2014
Are multiple universes real? Some scientists say yes
The good news – they believe they may be real. The bad news – we may never be able to access them, or even want to. How cool would it be to visit an alternate version of yourself, say, a world where you married your college girlfriend instead of breaking up? Or visit the version […]
March 30, 2014
Read this book: The Passage
This literary/genre juggernaut is worth the hundreds of pages. If you picked up The Passage without knowing the plot, you would quickly know that dark times were ahead. It starts out with a deadly virus culled from South American bats, adapted and tweaked by government scientists to create super soldiers. Of course they test it out […]
March 27, 2014
Helix: the last spasm?
The SyFy original was more than I thought it would be, but will the lack of character (and viewers) be its downfall? One episode left for SyFy’s 13-episode sci-fi series Helix. No word yet on whether it will be renewed. Knowing SyFy, we may never see Helix again, which would be a shame. When Helix […]
March 22, 2014
Book vs movie: World War Z
It was nearly an impossible book to film, but they filmed it anyway. There’s only one book that comes to mind as a successful movie adaptation (though I’m sure there are tons of others), and that’s The Hunger Games. Zombie thriller World War Z by Max Brooks was a mega-successful book. World War Z the […]
March 17, 2014
Crime and punishment – sci-fi to sci-fact?
A near eternal hell on earth for felons? Maybe, if these scientists are to be believed. Imagine a drug that, when given to a prisoner, would make him believe that a thousand years have passed in the matter of months. Imagine the hell of living for a thousand years in a jail cell, whether real […]
Sci-fi to sci-fact?
A near eternal hell on earth for felons? Maybe, if these scientists are to be believed. Imagine a drug that, when given to a prisoner, would make him believe that a thousand years have passed in the matter of months. Imagine the hell of living for a thousand years in a jail cell, whether real […]
