Maybe it's a funny kind of geek serendipity, but I've been seeing a lot of news here on the site and elsewhere about fans building wonderful replicas of their favorite spaceships and robots.
Independence Day, or ID4 as most of us like to call it, was the big event blockbuster of 1996. Along with billions of others, I had enormous fun watching the film when it first hit theaters.
If you’re a genre fan, you don’t just look forward to the summer for the warmer weather, you also look forward to spending hot days in an air conditioned movie theater, checking out the latest blockbusters.
We’ve said it many times, but it always bears repeating... 1982 was the greatest year for genre movies, and it was a feast for film fans practically every week.
In the world of science fiction, fantasy and horror, there was one man whose spirit and enthusiasm for fantastic film was stronger than anyone other personality.
We'd probably all love a miracle story like the late Michael Crichton, who wrote novels to put himself through med school and ultimately became one of the most successful writers in history.
One of the things I like about a really good science fiction novel is that it never seems to go out of style and doesn't feel outdated, even if times have obviously changed since the story was first written.
