True invisibility may not be yet in sight, but a team of British and American researchers have developed a kind of proto-cloaking device.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Saturday Review: Ghost World
Ghost World may seem like an odd choice for a Bureau review, but it’s adapted from a graphic novel, it features hipster-nerds as lead characters, and at least one interpretation of the ending nudges it in the direction of genre.
It’s also a great film.
Ghost World
This gem among graphic novels, which originally appeared in several issues of Eightball and was first collected in 1997, finally receives its Bureau review.
Novel Review: Bios
This 1999 work by Hugo-winning author Robert Charles Wilson falls short of his more successful works, but it demonstrates his range. Here, he attempts traditional SF– with a Wilsonian twist.
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Saturday Review: Brazil
Care for a little necrophilia?
This disturbing dystopia is Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece, and at least as relevant now as when it first appeared in 1985.
Saturday Review: Tank Girl
Our reviews of genre films past continues with this film, which helped lead the 90s invasion of butt-kicking babes. It’s 1995. Lara Croft first appears and Xena meets Gabrielle. Buffy made her debut on film in ’92, but her more successful show is still two years in the future.
Tank Girl, based on the late 80s/early 90s comic, charges into the theatres.
Virgin Galactic Space Tourism
Sir Richard Branson unveiled the design for Virgin Galactic’s Spaceliners, the near-future of space tourism.
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Weekly Comics Discussion
The complete list may be found here . Fiz’s Civil War review (appropriately) will be delayed. I’ll have a review of Batman and the Mad Monk when the series finishes.
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Saturday Review: The Blob
This is Fiziko’s review, but he’s in transit and unable to post. However, we will be sharing Saturday Reviews over the next month or so.
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Whedon to write “Season 8” Buffy comic
Joss Whedon will be writing a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic series, due out next March. The series will depict events that occur after the show’s final season.
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