After Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992), there is a big old gap before the next film (1997’s Alien: Resurrection) takes place. It’s an area rife with possibilities for storytelling, akin to the gap between the events of A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) in Star Wars Continuity. Author T. R. […]
Read more "I Prefer the Term “Artificial Person,” Myself: T. R. Napper’s Aliens: Bishop"Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) would rather spend his days painting than getting involved with old, bad influences like gangster-turned-industrialist Motherskille (Steven Berkoff). However, when Bain’s old flame Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped by persons unknown, Motherskille hires the former gumshoe to take one last case. The investigation leads Bain to Pepperdine (Ingrid PItt) an exclusive […]
Read more "You Are What You Dream: Underworld (1985)"Remember that time when Lando Calrissian owned the Millenium Falcon and wound up trying to get his neck out of the noose from two sets of bounty hunters, a lethal Queen, and her precocious daughter, Princess Rinetta? You don’t? Well, not many people do … You see, it all starts with a game of Sabacc […]
Read more "There’s Nothing Common About Lando Calrissian: Justina Ireland’s Lando’s Luck"When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]
Read more "Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling"When a celestial event captivates the world, it leads to scientific curiosity as well as prognostications of doom and despair. However, it passes without much incident, as such events do, and the public interest moves along. However, it has left its influence upon the earthlings. Not on human beings, but on something much smaller. A […]
Read more "A Strange Incident in the Arizona Desert: Phase IV (1974)"Logan Burnhardt (Bill Moseley) is the king of airwaves, a crass shock jock who tells it like it is and is blessed with the number one radio show in the land. Tonight, his abilities are about to be tested. His ex-wife Lucy (Patricia Tallman) is the show producer, his pal Gil (David Moscow) plays the […]
Read more "Tonight’s Theme is … Paranoia: Dead Air (2009)"Linda Addison is one of the best kept secrets in speculative poetry, bar none. She has a terrific sense for language, a playfulness that veers into the darkest pockets of human experience and back out again into the realm of surreal whimsy. Who can fashion a punchline that also serves as a revisionist fairy tale […]
Read more "Just Me and the Forever Dead: Linda Addison’s How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend"Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) never knew her Mom. The woman went to the Amazon in the last month of pregnancy on a passion project, chasing a mythical spider, and died during childbirth. Cass pretty well hates her, unable to understand why her Mom would rather hunt mythical spiders than rest up and prepare for a […]
Read more "Plucking the Threads of Fate: Madame Web (2024)"To wrap up Black History Month, why not pick up a heavy hitter of a novel from one of the grandmasters of speculative fiction? Yes, Kindred has a weighty premise and an unflinching gaze at the horrible realities of the African American experience in the antebellum South, but it also has a lot of emotional […]
Read more "Seeing With Eyes Unclouded: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred"On a dead moon, the Kree’s new accuser Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) finds an ancient relic, a bangle of power. There are supposed to be two, but her soldiers have only found this lone specimen. Half the power is better than none, but this is nevertheless a setback for her plan to save the Kree home […]
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