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more about #hgwells more comments → Althestane: I love a woman who can find contemporary applicability and humor in characters, situations and personalities of the past! Kate Beaton, you are the on... more » Pessimippopotamus: I'd watch the Sexy Tudors. more » Smeagol92055: God, Kate Beaton never fails to entertain. My favorite strip of hers is the one with Beethoven and his ward. That and the Mystery Solving Teens Solv... more » cmg: the word dirigible never fails to entertain me. more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: Well, there goes my evening. So much for studying. The Mary Shelley one made me lol at the library. Lord Byron inserted into any kind of fiction make... more » The Curse of Millhaven: I have visited Arcosanti about 12 times over 25 years. Basically it is pretty, and a nice show-and-tell item where one may talk about arcologies. What... more » Klebert L. Hall: "Is This The Beginnings Of The First Megacity?" If so, it will only be because nobody actually wants to live in an arcology. It's been decades, and t... more » Bootknife-Jackson: is it taking it too far when a fan builds not his favorite character's costume, not his favorite fictional vehicle, but his favorite Mega City #1 ? more » IraeNicole: I would think that putting it in the city would dramatically increase the cost needed for the project. more » EdificeComplex: I'm waiting for the day when we can build something like this: Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid. Obviously influenced by the Tyrell Corporation. more » rod: Arcosanti has been more or less unchanged for 30 years. Let's hope that speaks to efficacy of the people involved, not the conceptual failure of the a... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): If this shit goes down. Dibs on the Lawgiver and the Lawmaster. Damit! I wanna be a judge!! You WILL obey the Laaaaaw under my dome!! That just sound... more » AmishJohn: Yes, Simon, stick it in the middle of a city. We saw how well that worked for Todos Santos. more » chuckusruckus: I had the opportunity to visit Arcosanti twice while living in Phx, and yes, it does have something of a communal/hippy vibe about it. However, the f... more » Grey_Area: Okay, I checked. This is the same Arcosanti I heard about as a little kid. It's been "under construction" since 1970. Their heart is in the right plac... more » -
#wellsvsverne
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 » -
#arcosanti
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 » -
#books
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 » -
#triviagasm
Moonage Daydreamer: The Greatest Lunar Scenes
In honor of Moon, opening today, we went kinda loony (get it?) coming up with our favorite lunar scenes in film and TV. (We restricted the list to our own planet's moon; sorry, Saturn and Endor fans.) Watch them here. More » -
#triviagasm
10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories
Looking for an antidote to Star Trek's utopian but overbearing Federation? Like your science fiction with a bigger emphasis on personal liberties? Then check out our list of the greatest libertarian science fiction...
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#sciencefictiondeaths
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 » -
#scifiart
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 » -
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#conceptdesign
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 »
