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Cram Your Hard Drive With Sexorcists, Sextremists And Interstellar Sexplorers
The original source for science-fictional sleaze, Something Weird Video, just launched a new video download service, letting you grab entire weird exploitation movies that your parents felt guilty sneaking out to watch. And they're as cheap as their original budgets. More »Tracy Scoggins Walks In On A Doll And A Shrunken Lady Having Sex On An Oven Mitt
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A Decontamination Chamber Scene That Will Make You Feel Contaminated
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Someone over at the Straight Dope message boards asks for help identifying a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world reduced to primitivism, where the rulers use technology (lasers) disguised as magic (wand-blasts). Oddly enough, that could describe many books. More »Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
Melinda Snodgrass is best known for writing the Star Trek episode where Data's personhood gets put on trial. But in the mid-1990s, she created Star Command, which took Trek's holodeck much, much further. Just check out this holo-torture sequence. Edgy! More »What Awful Sadist Demanded A Sequel To The Cell?
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A serial killer dies in a hospital where his medical equipment is connected to a mainframe, so he's able to upload his consciousness into the cyber-world and turn appliances into slutty-babysitter-killing weapons of mass destruction. More »Caption This Classic Wally Wood Illustration
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Paging Dr. Phil: My Wife Is An Alien Parasite Puppet!
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The most awesome thing on the internet is when people post a vague, rambling description of a science fiction story they read, or saw — and most of the time, amazingly, someone identifies it.