Those who know me know I rarely go to the theater for movies anymore.  There's hardly any point.  Unless the film is an epic, sweeping ...

This week, September 30 - October 6, 2012, is Banned Books Week , so what better time to take a look at books that have been banned over th...

Aldous Huxley's science fiction masterpiece Brave New World is set further in the future than many such stories, reaching clear to the...

An awful lot has been said throughout history on the subject of immortality.  Religions of all denominations proclaim eternal life as the s...

Kurt Vonnegut's best known work is part war memoir, part dark comedy, and part science fiction.  None of those genres make the book what...

I'm doing a bit of an experiment.  What's new, really?   Separate Worlds has always been a bit of experimental fun.  It's told ...

There are a ton of cool technological advances out there, with seemingly hundreds more every day.  Every time I turn around, I'm amazed ...

Ok, so I was born not so recently, but I am (rather ashamedly) quite new to the wonderful world of Doctor Who .  I know, I know.  Let the ca...

Atlantis and Earth have encountered one another before, so long ago that neither retains more than faded legends from the event. Now the ri...

Hama Al-Assy Square 2011-07-22,  ©  Syriana2011 The winds of change are blowing.  The world is changing.  As early as the Arab Spring ,...

It's that time of the year, when inspiration strikes and authors around the globe begin madly writing.   NaNoWriMo is an interesting an...

"Semper gumby".  That's Latin for "always flexible", or at least it should be.  While I learned that phrase in the N...

Space has always been fascinating to us.  Long before technology allowed us to venture beyond the atmosphere, we've been fascinated with...