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On watching Pitch Black (for the millionth time)


“Tell them Riddick’s dead. He died somewhere on that planet.”

More than a decade after its release, Pitch Black remains an anomaly–arguably the only movie to ever enter Ridley Scott’s Alien terrain and not be shown up as a lame copycat. It helped to have some really cool monsters, of course, and the [...]

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SF & Fantasy

ESCAPE FROM EARTH DAY: Superweapons (or: How to Hasten our Demise, by David J. Williams)


“Got something in mind?”
“I’ve got too many things in mind,” says Spencer. “Fifth-generation nukes. Tesla disruptors. Weather control. Anti-matter bombs. Gamma ray pro–”
“Half that shit isn’t even possible.”
“Leo. We’re riding a train going Christ knows where beneath the Himalayas precisely because we don’t know what’s possible.”
“But we’re about to [...]

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