Sean Yseult was the bassist for pioneering eighties and nineties metal band White Zombie, a group whose penchant for horror and psychotronic imagery and ultra-heavy, driving grooves made them superstars in the days when MTV actually played music videos. The band broke up in 1998 with lead singer Rob Zombie’s decision to pursue a solo [...]
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With so many users, learning your way around Twitter can be a bit intimidating. To help get you started, I’ve put together a short list of Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror authors and their Twitter handles. All you need to do is sign up and start following them!
Read MoreJoe and David P are back with a recap of Round Two, with more predictions, and less leather. Make sure to watch for a very special announcement at the end of the video!
So what did we learn this time?
— There are insanely close matches all around… Well, unless you count Sauron… cause, well, ya know…he’s [...]
In the annals of great bearded SF/F writers, a few names tower above the rest: Samuel R. Delany, Ed Greenwood, George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock. These wordsmiths distinguish themselves by their fantasy fables and fabulous follicles, their hirsute visages reminiscent of wizards, vikings and kings. While all of their beards are truly epic, there can [...]
Read MoreShteyngart admits he wasn’t the coolest of kids when he read the classic science fiction novel Zardoz as a youngster in Queens—but that doesn’t stop him from loving (and quoting) it still today.
Read MoreOn September 5th at the World Science Fiction Convention (this year in Melbourne, Australia), Del Rey’s own China Miéville won the Hugo Award for best novel for his critically acclaimed THE CITY AND THE CITY.
Read MoreSo, here’s the official version:
It was announced on Friday, April 2, at Norwescon 33, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2009 in the U.S.A. is:
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BITTER ANGELS by C. L. Anderson (Ballantine Books Spectra)
Special citation was [...]
Look out: A bomb with an hourglass!
And what, exactly, does that mean?
It means that the voting for the Round 1 matches of the first two divisions:
1st Division: Dragon Army
1) The Shrike vs 32) Arthur Dent
16) Kahlan Amnell vs. Drizzt Do’Urden Ged vs. 25) Edward Cullen
9) Aragorn vs. 24) The Wee Free Men
2nd Division: Gryffindor
5) [...]
Four hundred years ago, a stranger from northern Europe told Galileo Galilei about the idea of the telescope. In a matter of days, Galileo had figured out the basic principles of such a device by testing lenses in pairs until he got a magnified image of objects at a distance. After that, he [...]
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