Recent Columns

When Lost Went SF

by James Schellenberg

29 June 2009

The show stumbled, found its way, then went way hardcore on the science fiction. A wrap-up for season 5 and some speculation for the upcoming (and final) season.

Bookshelf Worlds

by Matthew Cheney

15 June 2009

I am a bookshelf voyeur; any time I go into a room with books, I spy and pry. A new room—whether a waiting room, an office, a basement used for storage—always contains excitement for me if it has books, because, until I have thoroughly pored over them, there is the potential for surprise, and the potential is often as electrifying as the reality.

The Best of 2008

by Iain Jackson

18 May 2009

2008 proved to be an interesting year. Fewer zombies, thank the deity of your choosing—or at least, I read fewer of them, so they didn't make it onto this list.

Beyond Bows and Eyelashes: Avatar Alternatives to Gender Rigidity

by E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman

11 May 2009

Ridiculous as it may seem, while I have had a copy of Mario Kart since I got my Wii this past October, it's really only in the last couple of months that I've become aware of just how much unlockable content the game contains.

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