So, Your Utopia Needs a Language...

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The City of Haifa in Lavie Tidhar's Stories

by Ehud Maimon

23 January 2012

When looked upon together from some distance, a clear picture of Haifa as it is seen in Lavie Tidhar's vision emerges. This vision produces a unique outcome, a speculative city which is at the same time universal and local.

Watching the Watches: An Interview with Sergei Lukyanenko

by Nicholas Seeley

28 November 2011

Nicholas Seeley asks Sergei Lukyanenko about writing, movies, video games, and the value of an international approach to writing fantasy.

Even the Old Ones Get the Blues: An Interview with John Hornor Jacobs

by Molly Tanzer

31 October 2011

But seriously, in my descriptions of Arkansas, I try to convey some of the decay, the innate corruptness of the human experience in the South. Even here, in Little Rock in 2011, the social stratification that existed in the 1950s still exists.

Cosmic Horror in John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy"

by Orrin Grey

24 October 2011

Perhaps because it's the first film in the "Apocalypse Trilogy," the themes that tie the three movies together are the most subtle in The Thing. The story concerns an alien creature found frozen in Antarctic ice that can absorb, digest, and then imitate perfectly any creature that it comes into contact with. What follows from its discovery is a classic meditation on paranoia, punctuated by some of the best practical special effects ever put on film.

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