Tag: science fiction
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Mighty Beasts of the 1950s
Time Traveling Let’s go back in time. The distant past! To the days when terrible lizards roamed the imaginations of prepubescent minds. I’m talking about the 1950s. Dino Evolution Back then, dinosaurs were juggernauts: massive, lumbering brutes that had more in common with locomotives and steam shovels than with the T-rexes and Velociraptors envisioned today.…
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More from Milford Fest: Live and In Person.
In an age when professional magazines are inundated with computer-generated submissions and screen actors can be replaced by CG doppelgangers, there are still activities that remain exclusively in the human domain. I’m referring to in-person events. You can try and simulate them with Zoom and Facetime, but there’s nothing like the real thing, and I…
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Milford: Authors, The Anchorage, and Arrowhead
Around the world, the town of Milford in eastern Pennsylvania is famous for its role in the development of science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Kurt Vonnegut, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, James Blish, Virginia Kidd, and Anne McCaffrey are just a few of the luminaries who have traveled to Milford to be part of the…
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Forward into the Past: Milford Writers Festival
Eliot … crashed a convention of science-fiction writers in a motel in Milford, Pennsylvania …. “I love you sons of bitches,” Eliot said …. “You’re all I read any more. You’re the only ones who’ll talk about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space…
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Obscure SF Films: Part 2
The lightning round. In my previous post, I reported on the first round of The Obscure Science Fiction Movie Game. Held on the first day of this year’s North American Science Fiction Convention, the game asked panelists to identify great-but-forgotten films. Points were awarded based on how many in the audience had seen and liked…
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Obscure SF Films
… the search continues. The hunt for overlooked genre films (see my previous post) resumed in Buffalo, NY, when Hugo Award Winning artist Frank Wu hosted a panel on forgotten science fiction films. Held on the first day of the 16th North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), the panel gave me the chance to join…