William Gibson kicked off his Bridge Trilogy with this 1993 book, set in the future year of… 2005!
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Grave of Copernicus
If you missed this last week:
the grave of Copernicus, the 16-century astronomer who advanced the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, has likely been located.
Werewolf versus Vampire Women
aka Werewolf versus Vampire Woman aka Shadow of the Werewolf aka The Werewolf’s Shadow
(Original title: La Noche de Walpurgis)
Dr Harwig! Look at this scar! It’s pentagonal!
Kids these days…. Why, in my day, if you were out of elementary school, you didn’t go begging for candy door-to-door. Dangnabit, if you’re old enough to shave any culturally acceptable part of your body, you shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. If you’re old enough to drive, you shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. If you’re sexually active, you definitely shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. Hrumph. Leave it for the kids. Older folk should be going to parties, or handing out candy, or scaring little kids, or watching horror movies. Yeah… And for our second day of Halloween Film Reviews, we’re looking at some really bad late-night horrors, well worth your own Mystery Science Theater 3000 night. Oooh! Scary!
Robot Monster
aka Monsters from Mars, Monsters from the Moon
Phil Tucker has achieved a reputation second only to the great Ed Wood as a creator of really bad drive-in era films.
The title character of Robot Monster, Tucker’s most infamous flick, has achieved pop-icon status.
Novel Review: All Tomorrow’s Parties
Published in 1999, All Tomorrow’s Parties concludes William Gibson’s loose Bridge Trilogy. It’s a sequel to both Virtual Light and Idoru and, while I found myself wishing I’d read both of those books before picking this one up, it can be followed without knowing either.
Super-Cheesecake
–Oh my–! Dad, did you know there’s a frozen monkey on the couch? And a hooker?
–She’s not a hooker.
–She’s dressed like one.
–I think that’s supposed to be some sort of superhero costume.
Day of Vengeance #4
It’s no secret that women in comix generally get drawn and clothed to appeal to prurient male readers, and it’s inevitable that someone would have a site dedicated to cheesecake shots of women in super-garb. No nudity per se, but not for all tastes.
Transparent Aluminum
This stuff the U.S. Air Force is testing comes pretty close to what Scotty described in Star Trek IV.
Captain Jack is coming Back.
y42 writes, Mothers, lock up your daughters and/or sons, everyone’s favourite bisexual time-travelling adventurer is spinning off from Doctor Who to his own show on the BBC next year.
Infinite Crisis #1
I’d finished with comics by the end of elementary school, and ignored them through secondary. In university, I found a copy of Marvel’s The Avengers on David Letterman in a bus station and read it. Then I started hearing about things called graphic novels. A nerdy acquaintance kept telling me to read something called The Dark Knight Returns.
As the regular university pressure mounted, I wandered into something called a “comic shop” and picked up Crisis on Infinite Earths #11. DC had been publishing a 12-issue mini-series, you see, that would forever alter their continuity and re-establish their pre-eminence in the comic-book world. Supergirl and the Flash died, along with an apparently infinite number of universes. The series freed DC of past continuity, and paved the way for some pretty good comics.
Twenty years later, DC is dramatically altering their universe once more.
Princess Bride, The Musical
chad writes, There’s a discussion over on slashdot about an upcoming theatrical version of one of my favorite movies, The Princess Bride. They’d be hard-pressed to outdo the movie, but I’m cautiously optimistic.