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William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Spook Country author William Gibson and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling will be turned into life-size animatronic statues, which at some point will gain sentience and battle to the death. At least, that'll be the case if the Science Fiction Hall Of Fame is as animatronic-happy as the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame, which it really should be. The two will be honored, along with Betty and Ian Ballantine and weird cyber-artist Richard M. Powers, at the Sky Church in Seattle on June 21, at a ceremony hosted by Connie Willis (Doomsday Book). [Big Dumb Object]

2:14 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
855 views, 16 comments

Latest by Cin: @lazyeight: In the short story anthology Burning Chrome, 3 stories take place in the Sprawl, the same setting for the Neuromancer Trilogy. 1. Burning Chrome (about Case's mentors) 2. New Rose Hotel (also made into a terrible movie... but it had Chris more »

roflcon

Are Tron Guy and Xkcd the Future of Celebrity?

If you ever watched the Star Wars Kid and Homestar Runner, or gawked at the Tron Guy and web comic Xkcd, you're changing the future of celebrity. You're building a world where Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise will be replaced by captioned pictures of cats and clever comics about algebra. At least, that was the premise of a conference held over the weekend at MIT called ROFLCon, which brought together the web's most famous meme-disseminators to prove that In The Future, Fame Will Be Different. Will it really? More »

8:20 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,472 views, 35 comments

Latest by jmaynard: @perun99: no one is aching to be with Tron Guy With all due respect, sir or ma'am: How do you know who does or does not want to be with me? @Metropolis: I know I really dont need to see the Tron more »

robot hall of fame

Let's Hear It For The Robot Hall Of Famers

You know that you've not only made it, but made it some time ago and are now considered somewhat embarrassingly uncool, when you get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's why somewhere Brent Spiner is weeping into his velour jumpsuit and broken Broadway dreams with the news that Lt. Commander Data of the USS Enterprise is one of this year's inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame. I say "somewhere," because he didn't even make it to the ceremony on his behalf. More »

7:30 AM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Graeme McMillan
2,659 views, 36 comments

Latest by Cacafuego: @edosan: Dude, you kind of miss the point--Special Ed teachers have to undergo a LOT of training to keep from slapping "Aspbergy" kids silly, phsyically or verbally. You're not going to find that kind of patience/tolerance with most people. Especially more »

george lucas

Lucas: These Aren't The Streets You're Looking For

Why is George Lucas is refusing to allow his name to be submitted for approval for the Hollywood Walk of Fame? That's the question on literally several people's lips after Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross discovered that Lucas himself is responsible for his absence from the sidewalks of Hollywood and Vine. More »

5:59 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By grae
73 views, Comment