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Franky Micklestone  |  by search.techrepublic.com.com. All rights reserved. 11.05 | 10:19

Heres a one-page script treatment for the original Star Wars movie pitch, marked up to become a pitch for the first Harry Potter novel and/or movie. Hilarious send-up of mythical tropes that we seem to fall for every time. Joseph Campbell, eat your heart out.

Found via Neatorama.

Come July, the Harry Potter literary trend is over, when the final book in the series is released. It would be a shame if all those budding readers--particularly science fiction fantasy readers--gave up books once the Potter wave crests.

Our friends at SFSignal are set to do something about...

One of the great literary science fiction writers of all time has passed on: Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. I am hardly qualified to say much on the matter, especially when so many more eloquent, informed, and important folk have laid out such fine words on..

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I intend to get a textbook on Java and Javascript, can anybody recommend a book or an author for me.
Before I discuss the book pictured at the left here, let me expose a dirty little secret of my sci-fi/fantasy book club: We hate everything.

Every month, we pick a book, maybe a third of us read it, and those that do finish the tome proceed to rip it apart...

In a recent Asimovs magazine column, science fiction author, editor, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Norman Spinrad, asserts that "hard" science fiction is in a precipitous decline and heres why:"In a society where the distinction between astronomy and astrology is probably blurry in...

I bought $30 worth of certification exams from www.examcheets.com.

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