New Bad Future

In Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” America’s billionaires go on strike. Their creative minds are the motor that runs the world. But the evil, i...

I think there’s a freaking tank of comatose psychics in Russia a la “Minority Report.” They’re broadcasting thoughts to America’s weak-mind ...

What’s the function of a critic? On the level of the university or national publications, that’d be someone who analyzes the merits and faul...

Some random thoughts on Dune 's latest film incarnation ... Director Denis Villeneuve is a visionary — in a literal sense.  When I saw t...

James Cameron has earned some grudging respect in the SF community. The man knows his SF. More importantly, he knows from whom to steal. Jus...

Sooner or later it had to happen. Post-modernist art is dead. Long live post-post modernism! Do I have a handle on the new flavor? I do not....

A Hard Rain is Going to Fall   We have met the future and it sucks. The forecast is brutal in John Shirley's "Stormland." The ...