Daily Archives: October 13, 2009
Speaking of Star Trek
Posted on October 13, 2009 41 Comments
Treksters, your latest nerdgasm has just arrived: Yes, the Internet’s own Wil Wheaton is collecting up his memories of his Trek days. To quote the blurbage: From Encounter at Farpoint to Datalore, relive the first half of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s unintentionally hilarious first season through the eyes, ears and memories of cast member […]
The Big Idea: Cherie Priest
Posted on October 13, 2009 37 Comments
I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m a big ol’ fan of Cherie Priest’s work — I blurbed one of her previous novels, you know — but even factoring in my enjoyment of her work, I have to say that Boneshaker, Priest’s latest, very simply rocks: It’s not only the steampunk adventure you’ve been […]
A Boy’s Own Genre, or Not
Posted on October 13, 2009 520 Comments
Another thing for people to please stop sending to me: a recent and fairly random blog post in a purported online magazine, the premise of which essentially boils down to: “Science Fiction is by boys and for boys and now girls are ruining it for anyone with testicles, except the gays, who are just like […]
Teching the Tech
Posted on October 13, 2009 86 Comments
Charlie Stross does a little venting over a comment of former Star Trek: The Next Generation writer (and later Battlestar Galactica producer) Ron Moore, in which Moore reveals that the writers on ST:TNG didn’t bother to actually insert any science into their fiction: He described how the writers would just insert “tech” into the scripts […]
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