Towel Day
It seems that I missed Towel Day yesterday, “an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001)”.
Archive of posts filed under the Science Fiction and Fantasy category.
Topics pertaining to science fiction and/or fantasy, in book, TV show, or movie formats.
“Osama bin Laden and Harry Potter”
Wow… Osama bin Laden as Voldemort. The conspiracy theorists must be having a field day with that one.
“Dungeons & Dragons park: Dice not included”
Next time I’m around Illinois, I’ll have to stop in here and relive a little of my childhood fantasies.
“UK start-up pitches touch-to-sync tech for watches”
I’ve been using the Casio Data Bank watches since they first came out when I was a teenager, but I have to admit that since I got my first Palm PDA, the only thing I really use it for is to see the time, and occasionally for the countdown timer. Data-watches, never overly popular in …
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“How Reading Fiction Can Improve Your Social Skills”
As I mentioned a few days ago, in my younger years I had problems understanding what was going on in other people’s heads — apparently a problem common to people like me. It seems that it’s a good thing that I’ve always read a lot of fiction, that trait is probably responsible for the majority …
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“Smell like an elf: RPG perfumes”
Um… would you really want to take a whiff of something out of a world that hasn’t invented deodorant, and that considers bathing an odd way to spend an evening every three or four months? I’m quite happy to leave it entirely to my imagination, thanks.
“Doctor Who to marry Doctor Who’s daughter”
I love science fiction. It’s the only place (outside of insert-your-favorite-backward-state-here) where something like this could make sense. 😉
“Timeline of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions”
I often talk here about science fiction ideas that are now becoming science fact, but it has been happening for a lot longer than I’d realized. Many of the innovations of space travel apparently originated with Jules Verne and were published in 1867 — nearly a hundred years before humans ever rose above the atmosphere. …
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“Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?”
I’ve never watched any of his other movies, so far as I know — they seldom appeal to me — but I happened to like the movie The Last Airbender, though I know I’m in the minority. If I’d ever followed the series it was based on, I’d probably be donating to this too. Probably …
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“Happy Birthday, Skynet!”
It seems that I missed an important date in science-fiction yesterday: Today’s the day when Skynet achieves sentience, according to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The nuclear armageddon happens in a couple days. […]