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Land Of The Lost Was Cooler Than Lost

J.J. Abrams' Lost returns to television tonight, and you'll finally be able to find out what happens when those crazy Losties leave the island. But we're more interested in another (albeit smaller) group of castaways who were busy trying to get out of their own personal hell over 30 years ago. No, we're not talking about Gilligan and company. We mean Marshall, Will, and Holly. They were just a family on a routine expedition, who met the greatest earthquake ever known. It struck their tiny raft and plunged them down a thousand feet below, to the Land of the Lost. Find out more than you wanted to know about this terrific Sid and Marty Krofft show inside, including its connections with Lost, Doctor Who, and Star Trek. More »

11:00 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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Latest by ideaman2020: I've always said [when the subject comes up] Seasons 1 & 2 were good. Season 3 was crap. The 90s remake was utter horse-pucky! As fairly bright kids, we were aware of most the stuff listed above [except for more »

The Star Trek Script They Tried To Kill You can soon see the story that was too hot for Star Trek: The Next Generation. David Gerrold's AIDS allegory "Blood And Fire" will be an upcoming episode of Star Trek: The New Voyages. Gerrold, writer of "The Trouble With Tribbles" and author of The Man Who Folded Himself, is directing his own script. Still more proof that fan movies are the future of Trek. [NY Times]

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Time Travel Means Having Orgies With Your Past Selves

Time-tripping mutant Hiro from Heroes is hardly the first guy to get some trans-temporal love action. But if you want the best-ever time travel sex story, you've got to go back to 1973, when David Gerrold (author of the famous "Trouble with Tribbles" Star Trek episode) published The Man Who Folded Himself. A Nebula winner, this short novel explores what happens when a guy inherits a big belt that lets him travel through time, play the stock market to get rich, and build himself a giant mansion where all his alternate timeline selves get together and have giant orgies. More »

1:02 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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Latest by TheAlmanac: This is actually my favourite time-travel novel, and I'm always springing it on people who've never heard of it before... Thanks for giving it a nice 35th-anniversary plug. :) more »