I just got these in an e-mail from Amazon, and I thought some of you might like seeing what you can get for $1-2 on your Kindle. I'll put it behind a cut for those who don't want a wall of text: ( Read more... )

A bit of news here for Doctor Who fans -- 106 lost Doctor Who episodes featuring the first two Doctors have been discovered in Ethiopia. For real. Who'd have thought it?

Maybe if they look a little more they'll find a complete copy of London After Midnight, too.

More sad news to all lovers of classic horror and fantasy -- Richard Matheson, author of 'I Am Legend' has just died. I can't even begin to list a fraction of the work this man did. He was one of the last of the original pulp-era Weird Tales alumni, and he also wrote what someone described as some of the most brilliantly nasty and original SF, dark ( Read more... )

Sad news here for any old school SF and fantasy fans: Jack Vance just died.

And now I'm wondering how many people reading this are going, "Who?"

Jack was one of the 'second tier' SF and fantasy authors* from the 40's right down to the 90's. He wrote some utterly magnificent works, with my favorite definitely being his Dying Earth cycle, which ( Read more... )

Special Effects Pioneer and Master of Monsters Ray Harryhausen dead at 92.

If you were a kid of a certain age who liked monsters, you couldn't have lived in the 60's-80's in the US without seeing a Harryhausen flick at least once. And you probably loved them. It didn't matter if it was the Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea, the poor ( Read more... )

These were written by a friend of mine, and he's working hard on getting even more writing done. But for a limited time these books of his are 100% absolutely free. I've read them, and believe me, they're worth a read ( Read more... )

Just got some very sad news -- Fantasy/Horror/SF great Ray Bradbury has just died at the age of 91.

He was one of the first authors I ever read back as a boy -- him and Howard and Anderson and Norton and Wellman. Probably one of the last writers for the original Weird Tales and Planet Stories, the man who wrote such masterpieces as Something ( Read more... )

A planet literally made out of diamonds has been discovered. I am not kidding.

I do know someone who'd be pleased by this:


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They'll be showing every Thursday night all through June on TCM.

Yes, TCM, the last cable channel that even pretends to live up to its monicker, will be showing movies that haven't been seen on the tube for decades now. Such as Gojira, King of the Monsters, Tarantula, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman, and It Came From Beneath The SeaReally, these ( Read more... )