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Are You Evil Enough?
The Evil League of Evil, which recently welcomed Dr. Horrible into its ranks, is seeking new members. Aspirants to new heights of Evil should submit an application video by October 11. Full details at the Evil League of Evil Website. If you want to rub shoulders with the likes of Professor Normal, Dead Bowie, Fake…
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Bullet Train to the Stars
Riding silently into the sky, soon she was 100km high, higher even than the old pioneering rocket planes, the X15s, used to reach. The sky was already all but black above her, with a twinkling of stars right at the zenith, the point to which the ribbon, gold-bright in the sunlight, pointed like an arrow.…
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Practice Makes Perfect
Japan’s newest Web sensation is “Webkare,” a site that’s part social network and part dating simulator. Girls (the site is targeted exclusively at females) try to win the heart of one of four male Anime characters through cut-scene “conversations,” and must collaborate with other Webkare members in order to advance their cause. The site is…
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Fannish Vacation Destinations
Now that Las Vegas’ Star Trek: The Experience is closing, what’s an SF fan to do? Actual space tourism is beyond the pocketbook of most of us geeks, but fortunately there are plenty of other options. Besides the Atomic Tourism we’ve mentioned previously, there’s the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, dozens of observatories, Space Camp,…
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This Makes Me Oddly Happy
The McFarland Memorial bell tower on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus has a rather arresting shape, which apparently put somebody in a Tolkienesque frame of mind. Last Sunday it was surreptitiously “enhanced.” Link (via Museum of Hoaxes)
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Concept Ships
If you’re all about the hardware, this is the blog for you. Concept Ships is a “concept spaceship and experimental aircraft art blog,” devoted entirely to gorgeous artists’ renderings of spacecraft. Some of it is the work of blog owner Igor Tkac, but the bulk is guest submissions in a variety of styles. There’s some…
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The Stormtrooper’s Lament
(via Movin’ Meat)
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Sound and Fury in SF Fandom
Author Richard Morgan was asked to write a guest editorial for the 2008 WorldCon Postscripts anthology. He wrote about loud, angry factionalism, elitism, and generally prejudicial ugliness within the genre. The article wasn’t published because it was deemed too negative, so he’s posted it on his site instead. Here’s a funny thing. Skip across the…
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She Blinded Me with…Videogames
Constance Steinkuehler, a “game academic” at the University of Wisconsin (and holder of the sort of job title all of us covet), was running large-scale raids in a game called Lineage. Most of her guild members were teenage boys, and even though many of the “bosses” they were fighting were extremely tough, they had a…
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Panic.
Eoin Colfer, Irish author of children’s books and something called the Artemis Fowl novels (never heard of him or them), has been tapped to write a sixth Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy installment. …And Another Thing is due out October of next year, and will feature all of the old standards: Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin,…