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Sith Happens
Lines from Star Wars that sound dirty but aren’t: “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.” “Curse my metal body, I wasn’t fast enough!” “Look at the size of that thing!” “Sorry about the mess…” “You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.” “Aren’t you a…
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Ten Dumb Moments in SF Cinema
Movie Digger has compiled a list of the ten dumbest moments in otherwise very successful (i.e., “blockbuster”) SF movies. I think there are a couple of notable omissions (:::cough:::…midiclorians…:::cough:::), but it’s hard to argue with any of the ones they selected. The raptors, despite having acorn-sized brains, seemed to have no problem navigating a vast…
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More Free Fiction
Free Speculative Fiction Online has a whole heap of new additions from James Blish, Algis Budrys, Greg Egan, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Harry Harrison, Jay Lake, Claude Lalumière, Jack McDevitt, Alan E. Nourse, Mike Resnick, John Ringo & Linda Evans, Chris Roberson, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar and Stanley G. Weinbaum.…
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Possible Alternate Universe Found
Back in August, astronomers reported the discovery of a huge hole, a billion light-years across, in the constellation Eridanus. Now, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and her colleagues are claiming that the hole is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.” No word on whether Spock has a beard…
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“Top Ten” Science Fiction Edition
The “Little Fivers” site has an entire sub-category of science fiction-related “top ten” lists, such as this one, “The Top 10 Grievances of the Sci-Fi Characters Union:” 10> Silver spandex jumpsuits make our asses look like huge sparkly disco balls. 9> Much as we like to save Earth, the Universe and Everything on a regular…
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Quite So
Why Science Fiction is More Fun to Read Than Proper Literature: Link (via Second Effort)
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Earth with No Moon
Astrobiology Magazine has an interesting essay on how different the Earth would be without our unusually large moon to keep us company. Everything from the axis of rotation to the climate is influenced. The essay gets a little murky toward the end with its dip into the social impact of the Moon’s existence, but it’s…
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Darth Vader in Love
:::snorch:::
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This Makes Me Endlessly Happy
There’s a Gary Larson cartoon (with which most of this group will probably be familiar) showing a caveman pointing to the spiky clump at the end of a stegosaur’s tail and saying, “Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.” The spiky clump on stegasaur tails is formally referred to by…
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Neat Drawing
Nick Derington is an artist and illustrator who seems to have captured the essence of SF in this single drawing. I’m really quite taken with it. Here’s a link to his site, and one to his his Flickr stream. He’s got a lot of cool stuff like this in his gallery. (via Wil Wheaton)