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David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr

by Daniel Greenfield

David Gerrold has had a long history of reworking materials and themes from Grandmaster and prominent Science Fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein. David Gerrold's famous Star Trek episode, "The Trouble With... published 16 months ago

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Terminator The Burning Earth Features the Death of Skynet

by Daniel Greenfield

The War against Skynet has been running for decades now. For more time than anyone can remember and people have long ago stopped counting the years and begun counting the minutes, the minutes they have to... published 12 months ago

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Five Prematurely Cancelled Science Fiction TV Shows

by Daniel Greenfield

We all have our favorite TV shows which we love, the shows we grew up with, the shows we quote endlessly and the shows we collect on DVD. But there are the other shows, promising Science Fiction television... published 12 months ago

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Buffy, River, Faith and Fray, Female Heroines in the Whedonverse

by Daniel Greenfield

From the fictional universes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Fray", "Angel" and "Firefly" that form the overall Whedonverse, the creations and works of writer, director and producer Joss Whedon, these are... published 15 months ago

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Gunslinger #5 - The Fifth Issue of The Gunslinger Born

by Daniel Greenfield

Whether among the darkness and the dark things that hover around the world where darkness is mixed with light or in the world itself with its crazed mixture of laughter and life, sorrow and death, Ka is the... published 14 months ago

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Starship Troopers - A SciFi Anti-War Parable on DVD

by Daniel Greenfield

Some movies fail because the filmmakers made fundamental mistakes in storytelling, in pacing and characterization. Some movies fail because of timing. Starship Troopers is probably one of the best examples of... published 14 months ago

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The Five Worst Star Trek Episodes of All Time

by Daniel Greenfield

Every cloud must have its lining but every starship must also have its gaping hull breach. Television series that are genuinely great, also often tend to be uneven with episodes varying from one to the other... published 11 months ago

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Starship Troopers and the Forever War

by Daniel Greenfield

In some ways it would seem as if Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" should be very similar novels. Both after all are novels about humanity's war against an alien race... published 15 months ago

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Five Moral Dillemas in Star Trek

by Daniel Greenfield

Moral dilemmas have been one of the fundamental cores of Star Trek. Rather than a mere space adventure series, Star Trek from its inception had been concerned with questions of morality, debates over... published 12 months ago

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Empty Cities of the Full Moon - A Post-Apocalyptic Shapeshifting Journey

by Daniel Greenfield

Howard V. Hendrix's "Empty Cities of the Full Moon" mixes speculation on the borders of new age ideas about shamanism and human nature with good old\new fashioned Science Fiction premises that include... published 15 months ago

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