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Movies & TV Obsession Obsession Makes an Old Story New Again With Astonishing Acting This new take on a “be careful what you wish for” premise is dark as it gets. By Reuben Baron | Published on May 15, 2026 Image: Focus Features Comment 1 Share New Share Image: Focus [...]
News What to Watch What to Watch and Read This Weekend: The Bogs are Trending and the Trees are Calling Plus: Some good news about how your favorite art is keeping you alive By Molly Templeton | Published on May 15, 2026 Image: Pandora Film Comment 1 Share New Share [...]
Featured Essays Murderbot Martha Wells on Platform Decay, Found Families, and What’s Next for Murderbot “I kind of feel like I’ve taken it to a place where Murderbot is in a really good place right now.” By Matthew Byrd | Published on May 15, 2026 Photo Credit: Lisa Blaschke Comment [...]
News The Midnight Library Florence Pugh is Set to Visit Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library You can check out the books, but you can never leave? I think you can leave, actually By Molly Templeton | Published on May 15, 2026 Screenshot: Marvel Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: [...]
News The Batman: Part II Matt Reeves Confirms Two Marvel Stars Will Be in The Batman: Part II‘s Cast He also confirms that things are dark — literally! — in Gotham By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 14, 2026 Credit: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner [...]
Excerpts Science Fiction Read an Excerpt From Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border. By Isabel J. Kim | Published on May 14, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Sublimation by Isabel J. [...]
Movies & TV The Terror: Devil in Silver The Terror: Devil in Silver Is Altering the Themes of Its Source Material in “Disturbed” The rat will, sadly, not be getting a POV episode. By Alex Brown | Published on May 14, 2026 Image: Emily V. Aragones/AMC Comment 0 Share New [...]
News Lanterns Lanterns Showrunner Explains How His Show Fits Into the Current DCU Timeline What’s Guy Gardner doing in a Very Serious Detective Program? By Molly Templeton | Published on May 14, 2026 Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO The premise of HBO’s [...]
Books Teen Horror Time Machine Dark Pasts and New Beginnings: The Roommate and Runaway A new beginning? Or a new chance to MURDER? By Alissa Burger | Published on May 14, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share A new place is the opportunity to make a fresh start; moving to [...]
News Doctor Who A Lot of Doctor Who Will Soon Be Streaming on AMC+ Let me explain… No, there is too much. Let me summarize By Molly Templeton | Published on May 14, 2026 Screencap: BBC Comment 0 Share New Share Screencap: BBC The Doctor is on the move again. [...]
Books reading recommendations Five Horror Stories About Unstoppable, Inescapable Forces How can you hope to defeat a curse or monster that’s utterly relentless? By Lorna Wallace | Published on May 14, 2026 Maggie’s Grave cover art by Trevor Henderson Comment 2 Share New Share Maggie’s Grave cover art by Trevor [...]
News Barbaric Netflix to Adapt Barbaric Comic Into TV Series He’s got a talking axe and a lot to discover about himself By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 13, 2026 Robert Rovner photo credit: CAA Comment 0 Share New Share Robert Rovner photo credit: CAA It’s upfront week! That [...]
News Spider-Noir Spider-Noir Is a “Distant Cousin” to Spider-Verse, With a Bogart-Leaning Bent Humphrey Bogart, but make him Nic Cage… I mean Spider-Man By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 13, 2026 Courtesy of Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of Prime Video Nicolas Cage’s Ben Reilly in [...]
News The Magic Faraway Tree Adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree Gets a Release Date in New Trailer Vertical announced the release day along with a new trailer to celebrate the news By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 13, 2026 Screenshot: Vertical Comment 0 Share New Share [...]
News The Librarians: The Next Chapter The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 2 Has a Release Date, and It’s Delightfully Soon The spinoff series’ upcoming episodes will have loads of guest stars and see the return of some old Librarians… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 13, 2026 Photograph [...]
Movies & TV The Punisher: One Last Kill The Punisher: One Last Kill Is a Baffling, Purge-like Foray Into… Nothing Much The fact that it’s supposed to run concurrent with Daredevil: Born Again season two is laughable. By Emmet Asher-Perrin | Published on May 13, 2026 Credit: Marvel Studios / [...]
Books Reading the Weird Eat for the Job You Want: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 7) Good Stab encounters a trickster demigod, and obsesses over the purity of his diet… By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth | Published on May 13, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share [...]
Column Science Fiction Film Club Altered States: Bad Trips, Dodgy Science, and the Untapped Depths of the Human Mind Ken Russell, an isolation tank, and some powerful hallucinogens—what could go wrong? By Kali Wallace | Published on May 13, 2026 Credit: Howard Gottfried/Warner Bros. Comment 11 Share New Share Credit: [...]
News Ahsoka Ahsoka Season 2 Is Still Almost a Year Away Thrawn’s campaign will continue … later By Molly Templeton | Published on May 13, 2026 Image: Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Disney+ You want the good news or the bad news first? The bad news: Ahsoka season [...]
News Wildwood Wildwood Trailer Uncovers the Dark Fantasy Hidden in Portland’s Woods They’re really good woods, I promise By Molly Templeton | Published on May 13, 2026 Image: Laika Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Laika Despite having read Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, and having watched every snippet of video Laika [...]
In Case You Missed This... An award won by another Scooter Duff book.Check out this heart-stopping, hilarious, nutso winner HEREModestly yours,scooter [...]
...Home of the Devil There is a character - big time character - in Reluctant God who lives in a warm and cozy brown dwarf star. Like this one. Orange Brown Dwarf with Clouds* Go on, Get A Reluctant God freeGo on, Get A Reluctant God free e-BOOK HERE For general mind bending, check out SeniorJunior, [...]
Kindred Propulsion Systems In my soon-to-be published OldGuySci-Fi book of short stories titled GUT (it's about conscious micro biomes, of all things) there is a propulsion system that can accelerate and decelerate at huge G-forces.* The Cube, a perfect geometric object, was at the center of a hairball of cilia [...]
Why Some Men Don’t Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good NYTimes piece, July 3, 2017 Millennials - mostly male millennials - are working fewer hours and playing video games more hours. Big story, that. ... Go on, take it to another level, whip in a little sci-fi: The Dream [...]
Lotta Smart People Think It’s Going to Get Dangerous Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephan Hawkings, among the Earth’s smartest people, have warned that A.I. has the potential to eat its creators. Sci-fi types (I admit guilt there) have been saying it for decades. Remember HAL-9000’s, “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t [...]
"Food" as an Alien Concept * In this excerpt, the sixth Emperor of the Empire of Earth ("E VI") is being briefed for the first time by the alien ally "Tay" and Bobby. Tay's race evolved on a gas giant planet not unlike Jupiter. Bobby is the human "Reluctant God" [...]
Intelligent life on a turbulent gas giant? One of the main characters in A Reluctant God is "Tay," a composite intelligence reflecting the combined consciousness of billions of very advanced individuals from an empire of gas giants. Raising the question, of course, "Could intelligent life - or life at all [...]
Teaser, TEASER!! Scooter's (my) new book is "going to press" shortly. Here's a hint. * TBA. * pix credit [...]
The "Quantum Statistical Network" Up & Running? One of the assumptions in the book is that an instantaneous form of communications has been developed. It has essentially infinite range, huge bandwidth, is totally secure and error free. Pretty good, eh? Way sci-fi. Nobody I know seems aware that the Chinese [...]
Being Specific I decided that if I was going to use a "do over" for human civilization - as I clearly do in A Reluctant god - I had better do a full commitment to The Apocalypse, dates and all. Especially I should define how my do-over heroes survived the [...]
Games, Games, Games Sci-Fi can tackle the humongousest of topics. Today, we are seeing the early phases of an employment sea change. "Jobs" as they have evolved from man-pulled plows and sweating forge workers to coders and designers, are beginning to be assumed by our creations. AI and all its [...]
What Might We Find In This Galaxy? (When we have faster-than-light ships) Now that the Kepler Observatory is finding planets by the thousands (and it has barely touched the sky) it's almost certain that civilizations great and small have occupied some of them off and on for billions of years. [...]
In the final four! (Winners to be announced Nov 20) 2015 Finalists New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards CATEGORY: Fiction - science fiction & fantasy Books 1, 2, 3 and… 4. A Reluctant God, Scooter Duff Willis "Scooter" http://areluctantgod.blogspot.com [...]
4 Stars .. Really big retro sci fi... April 29, 2015 ByEric W Oberon April 25, 2015 Huge Galaxy-wide saga. Non-derivative and highly entertaining. Think Heinlein at his peak. Can't wait for the sequel. ____________________________ 5 Stars ..have to say this is one of … January 18, 2015 By Mike McManaway - See all my [...]
"What's this book of yours about anyway?" Several friends, clearly surprised that old Scoots has written a book asked me that. Fair question. So here is an outline. Or summary. Or something. It's too long to be a quick answer, and I hope not long enough to give away the [...]
YOU GOTTA HAVE A SERIOUS SPACE SHIP The ship was organic in shape and in the emotional impact it had on human observers. Poets and wags in the Dream Game described it as the head of an eyeless weasel with large, thorn-shaped horns growing from its nose, skull and neck, [...]