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    John Joseph Adams Sees Your Dystopian Future, Starts A Magazine

    Why Don't They Make Mutants Like This Any More?

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    Image of FashionZebra FashionZebra
    10/19/09

    In reply to John Joseph Adams Sees Your Dystopian Future, Starts A Magazine
    If anyone can save dystopian fiction, John Joseph Adams can. He's consistently produced my favorite anthologies. Hot damn, a website too!

    So... by the time I've finished reading this article, it's already 100 years old, yah? /lame lightspeed joke #publishing
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    Image of Moff Moff
    10/19/09

    In reply to John Joseph Adams Sees Your Dystopian Future, Starts A Magazine
    Only lightspeed? I DEMAND A FASTER MAGAZINE. #publishing
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    10/19/09

    @Moff: Tachyon Magazine ? #publishing
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    Image of Moff Moff
    10/19/09

    @Golem100: "The magazine so fast, you've already read it." #publishing
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    Image of John Joseph Adams John Joseph Adams
    10/19/09

    @Moff: That's my favorite comment in response to the announcement thus far. :) #publishing
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    Image of Moff Moff
    10/19/09

    @John Joseph Adams: WOOT! #publishing
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    Image of Aurangzeb Aurangzeb
    10/19/09

    @Moff: Maybe they're hoping that the positive relativistic relationship between velocity and mass will give them more content. #publishing
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    Image of Nathematics Nathematics
    10/20/09

    @Moff: "The magazine so fast, it's already read YOU!" #publishing
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    05/11/09

    In reply to Why Don't They Make Mutants Like This Any More?
    so how come no NSFW tag cuz a teh bewbs?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    05/11/09

    @alphanumeric1971: You really think I should add one? It's just a glimpse of gender-indeterminate boobs on a dune buggy... I guess i'll add a tag though.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/11/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Those are definitely women. Extremely saggy-norked women, but women nonetheless. At least the one on the right is.


    but the pointless repeated closeups of the "heroes" faces will put anyone into a coma before they could tell...

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    Image of Zack Stentz Zack Stentz
    04/27/09

    In reply to Get Indoctrinated Into Terminator Salvation's Resistance
    I heard that the comic prequels involve breaking up a Skynet coltan mining ring, which amuses me greatly, since coltan is a bit of continuity from the show, not the movies.
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    Image of extracrispy extracrispy
    04/09/09

    In reply to It's Like Blade Runner, By Way Of Uwe Boll
    I've actually been waiting for this movie because the music was co-composed by VNV Nation.
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    04/09/09

    @extracrispy: I think Combichrist is in the movie also.
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    04/09/09

    @Necrosynth: why'd you have to go and tell me that?


    still, i'd rather see Repo! than this, i think. or shit, maybe a double header.

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    Image of PalinFreeborn PalinFreeborn
    04/08/09

    In reply to It's Like Blade Runner, By Way Of Uwe Boll
    What's funny about this article is that, in the next few months, Blade Runner is being re-released as "Blade Runner: Unrated Extended Special Director's Edition Final Cut Part Deux."


    In this new final cut of the beloved sci-fi cult classic, Deckard finds out he's not only a replicant... but actually a replicant of a replicant, which actually makes him human. Scenes from The Gene Generation have actually been spliced in to bridge the story gaps, making this article wholly appropriate.


    ~Palin

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    Image of Alvy Singer Alvy Singer
    04/08/09

    @PalinFreeborn:


    But before it will Blade Runner: the unrated Laser Disc director's recut of the 1992 vhs director's uncut".


    In that versiones, Deckard saw two unicorns. You know what it means. TWO!!!! It has probably two personalities, but do dream androids with schyzophrenia?

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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    04/09/09

    @Alvy Singer: Two unicorns? Bang-a-dang dang!
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    04/08/09

    In reply to It's Like Blade Runner, By Way Of Uwe Boll
    "The "cheap science fiction movie voiceover opening sequence" is an art form in itself. How many movies have them? I feel like it's become a standard feature."


    I smell a new editorial idea!

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    04/08/09

    @0kami: My favorite has to be Dune since it was added post production because no one knew what the hell was going on.
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    Image of R.O.A.C.H. Creates ACyclicUniverse R.O.A.C.H. Creates ACyclicUniverse
    04/08/09

    @OW-Holmes: AND it was over a series of PAINTINGS.


    PAINTINGS!


    I mean, they could've at least tied it into the narrative somehow, (albeit, without revealing all of the intricacies of the plot against Duke Atreids), by having it be a film-book Yueh was teaching Paul out of or something similar.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    04/09/09

    @ACyclicUniverse: Pastels, actually, which just makes it sadder.

    To be fair it is one of my favorite mediums, BUT I AM NOT MAKING A BIG BUDGET MOVIE.
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    Image of Spoonman Spoonman
    12/30/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    No way, man. I will fight to my dying breath to have NY become part of Canada before we become European. Canada has MUCH better strip clubs!
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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    12/30/08

    @Spoonman: besides, Upstate NY might as well be part of Canada anyway, what with the Tim Hortons invasion and everything.
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    Image of Mister Adequate Mister Adequate
    12/30/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    I think he just drew lines on a map. The only thing in that entire map I could stretch to even countenancing would be that I could somewhat see New England fitting in the EU without too much trouble. Not all the way down the coast to South freaking Carolina though.


    Clearly this is just propaganda by bitter Russians. Note how not only does America fracture in the next one or two years, but that it supposedly breaks so badly that the newly independent forces need to sign up to other, existing powers. Even if things somehow fall apart that badly the sheer stubbourness of people means it's not going to result in this setup at this point in time.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/30/08

    @Mister Adequate:
    It's all clearly based on the hope that Russia will be able to exploit Alaska's oil reserves before we can tap them dry.
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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    12/30/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    get your fucking Utah out of my Cascadia!!!
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/29/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    Since when did Russia start growing prodigious amounts of pot? Aside from Texas (who tried, and failed, to exercise their legitimate right to secede during the American Civil War), most of the US would collectively chew off our left nut (or ovary, for the girls) before seeing our country divied up like a buffet. Remember, people come here because they want to get _away_ from their ancestral homelands.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    I'm surprised none of us thought of that wacky map Lauren posted here earlier this month.
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    Better looking map. Seemes to follow geographic rather than political boundaries. Still both of these gus are crazier than a corked aluminum fruitbat.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/29/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    He is apparently quite ill-informed on the political realities in this country, and just divided it up into fourths geographically and assigned some mysterious "influence" from the nearest foreign "power." It is especially ludicrous to think that thousands of miles of oceans will not impede this alleged "influence," in the cases of Europe and China.


    Wishful thinking indeed.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @RAHfanboy: Spooky political action at a distance!
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    Image of Tipa Tipa
    12/29/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    I live in Connecticut. Um, I must be totally blase or something; is it really considered a hell-hole? Good education spending, 70% covered by forests, long beautiful coastline, close to Massachusetts and New York if you like that sort of thing...
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/29/08

    @Tipa: Back when I lived there, it had three out of the ten poorest cities in the United States, but also was the second or third richest state. And this was back before the rich/poor divide became so widespread across the USA. Have you ever *been* to Bridgeport?
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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    12/29/08

    In reply to In A Couple Of Years, Sarah Palin's House Could Be In Russia
    Apparently, Hawaii gets to be the U.S.!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @MonkeyT: Actually, in the complete map Comrade Crazy figures either China or Japan will snap up Hawaii.
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