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Futurama Renewed For 7th Season

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by author-unknown

An anonymous reader writes “During the video for the 3rd International Talk Like William Shatner Day, Futurama voice actor Maurice LaMarche revealed that the show had been renewed and he’d received his contract for the show.”

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When Words Collide

Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by Beanbag

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Geek Culture Will Never Die…or Be Popular

Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 by author-unknown

adeelarshad82 writes "Last year CNN wrote an interesting article on how geek culture is now a big part of pop culture, while Patton Oswalt gave his own opinion on how he thinks pop culture has outright co-opted and diluted it. These articles gave … Continue reading →

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Plinkett Reviews – Red Letter Media

Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2011 by Beanbag

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baencd at the Fifth Imperium

Posted on Monday, November 8, 2010 by Beanbag

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Basic Science Fiction Library

Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 by Beanbag

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Salon Futura

Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 by Beanbag

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Crossed Genres

Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Beanbag

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Crossed Genres

Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Beanbag

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BULL SPEC

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Beanbag

Bull Spec is a magazine of speculative fiction — roughly, science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and a few other bits around the edges — published quarterly from Durham, North Carolina. Continue reading →

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BULL SPEC

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by Beanbag

Bull Spec is a magazine of speculative fiction — roughly, science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and a few other bits around the edges — published quarterly from Durham, North Carolina. Continue reading →

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Short Story: “The Cockroach Hat”, by Terry Bisson

Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010 by Beanbag

“The Cockroach Hat”, by Terry Bisson. 6/10

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Robert J. Sawyer’s talk at Google’s Waterloo office

Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 by Beanbag

Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian science fiction author, gave a fascinating talk at Google’s Waterloo office. He discusses how the world wide web might gain consciousness, the subject of his latest trilogy. The talk touches on several topics related to … Continue reading →

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Hugo Award winners for 2008

Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 by Beanbag

Here are the winners for this year’s Hugo Awards. There are links to some of the nominated and winning stories, including the winner for best short story, “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear. Link

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The Wizard in the Space Station: A Look Back at the Works of the Late Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by Beanbag

Great retrospective looking back at Clarke’s most influential works. But relatively little space has been devoted to Clarke’s writing—the notable exception being the essays of his collaborator and friend, Gregory Benford, an astrophysicist and author of many science fiction novels … Continue reading →

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New York Times article on the life of Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 by Beanbag

The New York Times has an article commemorating the life of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who just passed away. The author of almost 100 books, Mr. Clarke was an ardent promoter of the idea that humanity’s destiny lay beyond … Continue reading →

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Fiction: Wikihistory

Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 by Beanbag

This is a pretty funny piece of fiction on what could happen when nearly anybody can time-travel and change history. At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote: Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you … Continue reading →

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The Compleat Gamer Geek’s Guide to Futurama

Posted on Monday, December 24, 2007 by Beanbag

Wired’s Game|Life blog has just finished a series of articles on Futurama. Check them out for another look behind the scenes. This week on Game|Life, Wired magazine senior editor Chris Baker took us through the crazy videogame-obsessed brains of the … Continue reading →

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Wired Magazine on the resurrection of Futurama

Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Beanbag

Wired has a great series of articles on the new season of Futurama, and the story behind it. Cohen has another reason to be happy. The segment he’s watching is from Futurama, the show that he codeveloped back in 1999 … Continue reading →

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Top 10 science fiction novelists of the ’00s — so far

Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 by Beanbag

This is a great list of some excellent science fiction authors of this decade. We are blessed so far this decade with an amazing crop of new science fiction novelists. Writing in a variety of styles, this crew is arguably … Continue reading →

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