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Stargate Universe Canceled by Syfy

The Syfy channel seems to be more interested in Wrestling and Paranormal BS than actual science fiction.  Maybe that’s why they changed their name.  The Syfy channel canceled Stargate Universe only weeks after canceling Caprica. The only shows remaining are Warehouse 13, Sanctuary, and Eureka.  Tick tick tick That’s the sound of your life running

The Writer’s Market

The Writer’s Market is to aspiring writers what seed catalogs are to aspiring gardeners-something to drool over and think about and have long, usually unrealistic, fantasies about.  I bought my first Writer’s Market when I was in high school, submitted my first short stories and poems as quickly as I could roll them out of

Code 46 Can’t Tell The Players Without a Genome Card

We open with several pages of legalese explaining that it is against the law to have children with people who have either 100%, 50%, or 25% of the same genetic code as yourself.  At the same time we see Tim Robbins flying over a vast desert, which surrounds the city of Shanghai.  Clearly something has

Inception-Dreaming The Matrix

I’ve been waiting for someone to make another Matrix movie since 1999 and Inception is pretty close.  It’s a sci fi movie, sort of.  Sort of because there is no real science mentioned as to how the people in this universe share dreams.  This is not a problem, since we are never sure what reality

J. Michael Straczynski and Wonder Woman

For sci fi geeks like me, J. Michael Straczynski will always and forever be the man behind Babylon 5.  Though he has moved well beyond the world of bozo haired aliens and space opera-the last time I heard his name he was proudly proclaiming that Changeling was a true story. The news today is that

Top Ten Team Name Generators

Got a Team but don’t have a Name for it? Seems to be a pretty common problem. Or at least the people making programs to generate team names seem to think it’s a gap that needs to be filled. After all, who could think up something like the Wicked Funny Two-Tailed Swallowtails all on their