Born in New York’s the Bronx in 1969, Keith R.A. DeCandido was a science-fiction fan from the very start—his parents were fans of the original Star Trek, as well as classic SF/Fantasy novelists like Heinlein, Le Guin, and Tolkien. DeCandido attended Fordham University and edited the college newspaper, and after graduating he worked for several…
It was an important weekend for science-fiction fans this past April 11-13 in Burbank, CA, as past, present and future celebrities of the genre gathered for the Grand Slam: Sci-Fi Summit, an annual, weekend-long convention for fans of science-fiction movies and television that attracts some of sci-fi’s most beloved creators and celebrities. The guest list…
Science fiction, role-playing game, and comics author Michael A. Stackpole (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron) has just found out that an asteroid has been named after him. Stackpole reports: On March 23, 2001, David Healy and Jeff Medkeff discovered an asteroid about a mile in diameter, in the asteroid belt on the Mars side of…
They say there’s nothing new under the sun. Well, now I’m saying that as well, but I’m saying it about science fiction. S-F was supposed to look forward and, at its best, teach us something about today’s human condition. You can look forward by looking into the past, but you’re not looking forward by burying…
The newswires are spreading the news that Arthur C. Clarke has just died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Clarke will be known to most of the world as the writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey along with other science fiction classics as Childhood’s End, Rendevous With Rama and…
Well, it’s SF week at the ol’ DVD Xtra. Not sci-fi week, but SF week, using the “official” contraction sanctified by the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was once a member. Now, if I were considering the likes of I Robot and/or I am Legend – two Will Smith vehicles adapted from…
Today in 1938, the Brits did television a mitzvah when the BBC created the first sci-fi TV show, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play "R.U.R.", which coined the term "robot." For those of you who thought "The Matrix" was revolutionary, it was Capek who introduced androids that rebel against their human…
We’re not quite sure what they’re putting in the water coolers over at io9, but it’s producing some bizarre (yet strangely attractive) reading material. Case in point: This feature on the rate of exchange for various forms of currency in the science-fiction world. Galactic Standard Credits, the money used by the Republic and the Imperial…
In what’s become familiar but always interesting subject matter, PopSci.com examines "The Science of Superheroes" by calling in a "Hollywood physicist" to analyze the science behind superhero (and supervillain) antics. The article takes eight popular characters from the world of comics and evaluates what it would really take for them to do all of the…
On this occasion of the 90th birthday of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, why not curl up in the capsule with a good ComicMix column or three? After all, any sufficiently advanced ComicMix column is indistinguishable from magic! Here’s a bunch from which to choose from this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #44: Let’s…
Perhaps it is not geekdom to celebrate, but it is geekdom nonetheless and it is to be remarked upon for the path it has set the world on since. Today in 1942, the Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, and his team initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction as part of the Manhattan Project. Why is…
On this day in 1963 on BBC television at 5:15 pm, viewers saw a notice about the assasination of John F. Kennedy, and then saw something not unlike this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKg9tuSbXmk …and with that, Doctor Who began its 44 year hold on England’s psyche, racking up the title of longest running science fiction television series, and…
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