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H. G. Wells Strikes Back with 'Things To Come'
H. G. Wells disliked Fritz Lang's Metropolis with a fiery passion, tearing it apart in a review for the New York Times. The movie Things To Come' is his brilliant celluloid riposte, and you can watch it online for free. More »HG Wells and Jules Verne Battle Over the Future of Science Fiction
Poor Jules Verne. All he wanted to do was tell scientifically plausible tales about great explorations and new technologies. Then HG Wells steps in with his fanciful time machines and alien invasions. What happens when their imaginary technologies face off? More »Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?
The idea of an arcology, a single hyper-structure that houses an entire town or city, has haunted science-fiction stories like H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, Judge Dredd comics and Larry Niven novels. But now they're building one in the desert. More »Don't Ask The Wall Street Journal How To Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction
Somebody wrote to the Wall Street Journal's book advice column to ask how you go about convincing your 13-year-old nephew to stop reading science fiction. Thank goodness the WSJ's in-house book nerd was smart enough to say: You don't. More »Moonage Daydreamer: The Greatest Lunar Scenes
10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories
12 Coolest Deaths In Science Fiction History
It's never great to watch a beloved science fiction hero die — but sometimes a memorable heroic death can help turn a science fiction story into a real epic. And some science fiction characters are unforgettable and bad-ass precisely because they died in a memorable way. Here's our list of the dozen greatest deaths in the history of science fiction. With some spoilers, natch. More »Martian Statue Permanently Terrorizes Small English Town
The first Tripod from scifi writer H.G. Wells' mind has a place of honor in the town it destroyed: Woking, England. This War of The Worlds sculpture is certainly a beautiful thing, giving respect and a tip of the hat to great scifi writers from the past. In that same vein, I think there should be a giant sandworm looped in and out of a desert somewhere for Frank Herbert, and an army of robots lined up, terracotta warrior style, as a tribute to Isaac Asimov. Click through for a gallery of pics of the beautiful invading tripod. More »Dark Knight Scribe Turns Invisible Man Steampunk
An Amazing Collection of "War of the Worlds" Book Covers
One of the most widely-read science fiction novels across the globe, H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds has been in print continuously since the late nineteenth century. And it's had a lot of book covers: artistic, fancy, pulpy, and just plain strange. Now, over at Chez Zeus, there's a collection of over 100 (and growing) covers from the book that readers have sent in. You can browse them by date, artist, language, and image on the cover. By far my favorite collection of of the covers is grouped under the header "Huh?" See a few below. More »Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Car to be Displayed in New York