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In a recent #MindMeld column, the beneficent SF Signal Irregular Paul Weimer posed the following question to a glorious and resplenden...

Storm Trooper Jayne (Photo credit: Cayusa ) We all know that one guy who claims to love science fiction but throws a galactic hissy fi...

Screenplay (Photo credit: Matt-Richards ) Seriously, in 1998 I cowrote a movie script with David Goyer (and seven other people)...

Image by Mykl Roventine via Flickr Another Saturday, another horrifying example of my radio non-talent, courtesy of TechTalk WRLR in Chicag...

Image via Wikipedia Robert A Heinlein is considered one of the most influential writers in the history of science fiction -- but are Heinle...

Image by tsevis via Flickr From Twitter 03-02-2011 http://dlvr.it/J6x5N YES, THIS --> http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db =com...

Image via Wikipedia I have been frustratingly unavailable to participate in these of late, but suffice it to say, the SF Signal Podcast is ...

Bugs Bunny's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I am once again snowed under with work, but since today ...

Sensawunda (n.) - Sci-fi slang term for sense of wonder , used to describe emotionally stirring or intellectually stimulating concepts de...

Image via Wikipedia The gang over at Futurismic finally addressed the elephant in the room as applies to the future of short fiction publish...

Image via Wikipedia Zombie apocalypse (n.) - An end-of-civilization scenario wrought by an outbreak of zombies that rapidly converts or co...

Image via Wikipedia Mundane (n.) - A slang term from science fiction fandom which describes all non-fans. In many instances the term is u...

Image by Jay Garmon via Flickr Spec-fic (n.) - An abbreviated slang form of speculative fiction , which is itself an umbrella term for sc...

Image via Wikipedia Multiverse (n.) - Simply put, multiple universes that are linked together. More specifically, a set of interrelated p...

Isaac Asimov via last.fm Psychohistory (n.) - A field of study that uses advanced mathematics to accurately predict the future. Specifica...

Image via Wikipedia Unobtainium (n.) - Snarky term for either a scientifically impossible substance that makes some fantastic device or pr...

Image via Wikipedia Canon (adj.) - Describes the accepted, official, sanctioned events and elements of a fictional universe , as opposed t...

Image via Wikipedia Jonbar Hinge (n.) - An event in history with two (or more) distinct possible outcomes, one of which leads to our famil...

Image by Dunechaser via Flickr In what can only be categorized as an act of insane hubris, I've decided that the Written Weird is going...

Image by Satsukiame via Flickr The X-men got big in the early 1980s . So did glam metal rock . That probably expalins why so many X-men co...