Received recently in the inbox: Good morning, sir, I hope I find you in fine health. I am writing to you on a matter of the most supreme emergency. As you may have read in the newspapers, the chief scientist Professor Hilary Davros is fleeing for his life from the Kaled dome. He has askedContinue reading “An E-mail from… Skaro?!?”
Author Archives: Allyn
Hellboy!
I have a love-hate relationship with eBay. Sometimes I love it, because I can find things that I never even knew I wanted. Sometimes I hate it, because I can find way too many things I never even knew I needed. Last week I bid on the Hellboy PlayStation game, Asylum Seeker. The game arrivedContinue reading “Hellboy!”
On the Political Spectrum
Really. This is no surprise, not if you’ve known me for more than, say, five years. 😉 Where do you fall on the liberal – conservative political spectrum? (United States) brought to you by Quizilla
On the Upcoming Aliens Vs Predator Film
There’s an Aliens Vs. Predator film coming out this August. Directed by Paul Anderson, director of the hugely underrated Event Horizon. Some friends think this is the worst thing since I don’t know what, but I’m actually excited by the prospect. Aliens! Predators! 🙂 I’ve always thought an Aliens vs. Predator film could be good.Continue reading “On the Upcoming Aliens Vs Predator Film”
On a Martian News Release
Passed along without comment. 🙂 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Martian Air Force denies UFO crash Gusev Crater (MPI) – A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien spacecraft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Saturday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that “theContinue reading “On a Martian News Release”
On Last Son of Krypton
Yesterday the animated Superman pilot, “Last Son of Krypton,” came out on DVD, and I picked it up at Wal-Mart for something like eight or nine dollars. I never really followed the animated Superman, catching an episode here, an episode there, over the course of its run, so the only extended visit I paid toContinue reading “On Last Son of Krypton”
On Energy Weapons and Kinetic Weapons in Star Trek
This has been playing on my mind for a few days. There’s a problem with Star Trek. It’s a little too high tech. It’s like how everything hovers, when wheels are perfectly good ways of getting around. It bothers me that energy weapons seem to be the rule of the day in the 24th-century. InContinue reading “On Energy Weapons and Kinetic Weapons in Star Trek”
On a Foundation Movie
A recent announcement from Locus: “The film version of [Isaac] Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ trilogy optioned in 2000 by Fox, is moving forward, with a screenwriter assigned, and will likely appear as two films, ‘Foundation’ and ‘Second Foundation.’” You want my honest opinion? I think Foundation is pretty much unfilmable. But I’d have said that about TheContinue reading “On a Foundation Movie”
On F. Scott Fitzgerald and Heroic Fantasy
Little known fact. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and coiner of the term “The Jazz Age,” wrote heroic fantasy. Why bring this up? On a mailing list I subscribe to the question was asked, “It’s interesring to note that though Hemingway and Fitzgerald did make it big, they still were miserable andContinue reading “On F. Scott Fitzgerald and Heroic Fantasy”
Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Why Zak Kebron Wears a Gravity Belt
It’s stated in one of the earlier New Frontier books that Zak Kebron needs to wear a gravity belt to function in the lower-than-Brikar-normal gravity (i.e., Earth gravity) environment of the USS Excalibur. That doesn’t make a lot of sense; humans can function tolerably well in the zero-gee environment of low Earth orbit, and theContinue reading “Allyn's Crackpot Theory: Why Zak Kebron Wears a Gravity Belt”