Profile: John Scalzi
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Insomniac Science Fiction
My house has three cats, and every morning between 2 and 4 a.m., at least one of them needs to go outside. My wife, who could sleep through an alien invasion, they do not bother. No, they come to me,... More
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Academy Award Nominations 2012: Not Science Fiction's Best Year
The Academy Award nominations are out, and although this column appears on Wednesday, I'm banging it out on Tuesday morning. So what you're about to get right now are my immediate thoughts on the Oscar nods, and how they relate... More
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A Science Fiction Film Elementary Education
Kids these days don't really need to be introduced to science fiction; it's a genre that's all around them in television, video games, books, and of course movies. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that you are both... More
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2012 Fantasy Films and 3D Makeovers of Classics: It's Mailbag Time
It's a slow week, science fiction film-wise, so let's go to the mailbag and answer a couple of ever-so-slightly off-topic questions, about fantasy films and 3D rereleases. First question:You covered science fiction releases for 2012, but any thoughts on the... More
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Previewing 2012's Science Fiction Film Slate
If you're reading this, you've made it into 2012 alive. Well done, you! So did I. To celebrate our continued existence on this dizzy planet, let's take an early look at some of the science fiction films scheduled for the... More
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Final Thoughts on 2011 Movies, Scifi and Otherwise
This will be the last column of the year! You'll have to wait until next year for the next one! Fortunately, "next year" is just a few days away, so there's no reason to panic. But as this is the... More
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Science Fiction Films of 2011: The Year in Review
With the exception of The Darkest Hour, which opens on Friday (and which, I suspect, is going to get buried by The Adventures of Tintin and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, not to mention the expansion of Mission: Impossible... More
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The Flying Snowman in Science Fiction Films like "Star Trek"
I generally avoid pointing back to my personal site from here -- it's that whole "don't cross the streams" thing -- but this week I had a discussion there that I want to expand upon, on the subject of the... More
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Truly Terrible Science Fiction Film Holiday Specials
Science fiction nerds are well aware of the existence of The Star Wars Holiday Special, the spectacularly ill-advised 1978 two-hour television event in which viewers were exposed (like a virus!) to the Wookiee celebration of Life Day, the comedy antics... More
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Remaking Scifi Films: The Economic Argument
A couple of weeks ago I made the observation, regarding The Thing, that the new versions of popular horror films don't tend to come anywhere close to the success of the films they're drawing from -- in this case, the... More
