Science Fiction Weekly

Books: Cosmos Incorporated

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Who is Sergei Diego Plotkin?

Interviews: Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew of the latest Narnia installment, Prince Caspian

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

With the massive success of Andrew Adamson's cinematic adaptation of C.S.

Columns: The Enchantress of Florence

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Enchantress of Florence is two Lands of Fable shacked up in a single book: the Mughal Empire during the long high resonating pomp of Akbar the Great (1542-1605) and Florence about a century earlier, around the time Niccolo Machiavelli begins to achieve his own much briefer flight into the airs of history.

News: News from 05/05/2008 to 05/11/2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Routh: Steel To Fly In '09 Superman Returns star Brandon Routh told SCI FI Wire that he expects to be working on the next film installment, Superman: Man of Steel, with director Bryan Singer beginning early next year.

Screen: Speed Racer

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Based on the popular anime series of the same name, Speed Racer centers on the adventures of a boy (Hirsch) obsessed with the world of auto racing.

Screen: The Pixar Story

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

It wasn't always a money machine.

Screen: Carved DVD

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Little kids in a small town in Japan are telling stories about the Kuchisake-onna, or Slit-Mouthed Woman.

Sound Space: Justice League-The New Frontier

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Justice League: The New Frontier is an animated direct-to-DVD film chronicling the formation of the Justice League of America (JLA) back in the late 1950s and early '60s.

Books: The Edge of Reason

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

The clash of science and religion has rarely generated as little light or heat as in this sloppily conceived and messily executed thriller by Melinda Snodgrass.

Site of the Week: Slacker Astronomy

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Astronomy can be hard.

Screen: The Birds

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

This is it, people: the closest the great Alfred Hitchcock ever came to making a science-fiction movie, even though he always adamantly insisted it wasn't science fiction because he hadn't offered any rational explanation for the phenomenon.

Games: Iron Man

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Like all the recent video games based on Marvel comics characters, Iron Man is based on the big Hollywood movie, with bits from the comic books added in to pad out the gameplay.

Letters: Dresden Viewers Deserve Plan B

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

I think it's time for Plan B.

Books: Null-A Continuum

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Two of Grandmaster van Vogt's most influential and admired novels are surely The World of Null-A and The Players of Null-A, both serialized in John Campbell's Astounding over the period 1945-48, and each achieving book form somewhat later.

Interviews: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox were built for Speed

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Andy and Larry Wachowski used computer technology to push the boundaries of what film could do with The Matrix, and they continued that trend with the groundbreaking sequels Reloaded and Revolutions.

News: News from 04/28/2008 to 05/04/2008

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

DC Revives Flash Barry Allen, aka the Flash, is speeding back to life in a new DC comic 23 years after being killed off, the Associated Press reported. Allen was the second man--though not the last--to don the trademark red costume decorated with a lightning bolt as DC Comics' "Fastest Man Alive." His death in 1985 became legendary among comic-book fans.

Columns: Chaos Theories

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

It is one of the curses of being a sci-fi writer that close friends and even random strangers will expect you to be visionary about the future.

Screen: Iron Man

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Tony Stark (Downey) is a larger-than-life figure who's just primed for a fall and some serious redemption.

Cool Stuff: Deckard Trench V2.0

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

Several wonderful things happened in 2007 for fans of Blade Runner, the stylish cult-classic 1982 film that did so much to influence the look and feel of subsequent films.

Books: Elom

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST

The notion of selective breeding is taken to unprecedented extremes on Elom, a far-off world whose human population was transplanted there after powerful-but not necessarily benevolent-aliens made a visit to Earth and found humanity wanting.