Archive for October, 2008

Top 10 Science Fiction Movies of All Time | Old-Wizard.com

Posted by axxmart on 29th October , 2008

Are you tired of the same old Top Ten Sci-Fi movie lists that have 2001: Space Odyssey listed at number 1, and then leave off all of the Star Trek movies? Well. … Aliens was definitely a much better movie than the first one (not taking anything away from the first movie), so much so that it makes our top 10 science fiction movies of all time list. The story this time around takes place nearly sixty years after the conclusion of Alien, Ellen Ripley and Jonesy the cat are …

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True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through …

Posted by admin on 21st October , 2008

Let me be the first pedant to say that these all (but one) seem to be fantasy books, not science fiction . Chalk and cheese to some readers. As an author of similar I’d hope you might be a bit more discriminating than 100% of the …

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Lost Art of the Pulps — Science Fiction

Posted by innorkSeera on 2nd October , 2008

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Lost Art of the Pulps — Science Fiction

Posted by editor on 2nd October , 2008

American publishing has taken many turns in the last 200 years. One of the best periods for American writers and artists was the era of pulp magazines, those inexpensive magazines on cheap wood pulp paper that flourished from about 1920 to 1950, when the new infant television and mass market paperbacks finally froze them out. There were literally hundreds of pulps coming out weekly or monthly, selling for 10 cents or less, then 15 cents, and finally 25 cents each. It was a good time for …

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