The SHADO Moon Hopper. One of my favorite SF vehicles! And...you got to love those purple wigs! SF Babes? That show had SF Babes!

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"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?"

"It .. isn't actually breen."

"But the smell, the taste..."

"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."

(Babylon 5, Walkabout)

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Over at Golden Age Comic Stories, Mr. Door Tree (!) recently completed a series of postings about Metropolis.

He put up several entries about an illustrated version of the novel: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.

He also put up several entries about the film: One. Two. Three. Four. These include some great behind-the-scenes shots.

This follows the recent news that missing footage from the film has been discovered. New DVD coming?

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Star Wars was around a lot longer than we thought. more...

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Robert A. Heinlein (introduction by John Scalzi): Project Moonbase and Others (Subterranean Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59606-186-6; cover and interior art by Bob Eggleton).

Review found here.

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Need advice but find the ramblings of a Jedi Master too straightforward? Ask Kosh!

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C.L. Moore; Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (Planet Stories/Paizo Publishing; 2008; ISBN 978-1-60125-081-0; cover by Sean Glenn).

Review here (no, I haven't given up my "day job").

Made up of: Introduction: Teaching the World to Dream (C.J. Cherryh); Shambleau; Black Thirst; Scarlet Dream; Dust of Gods; Julhi; Nymph of Darkness (with Forrest J. Ackerman); The Cold Gray God; Yvala; Lost Paradise; The Tree of Life; Quest of the Starstone (with Henry Kuttner); Werewoman; Song in a Minor Key.

Part of the 2008 Year in Shorts.

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The review can now be viewed here.

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The combined review can now be found here.

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From the pen of science fiction writer John Wright comes a sequel to A.E. van Vogt's The World of Null-A and The Pawns (or Players, depending on your edition) of Null-A (the less said about Null-A Three, the better). Will Null-A Continuum fare better than Kevin J. Anderson's sequel to van Vogt's classic Slan? I hope so.

The mystery, however...how come Tor/Orb came out with a handsome trade paperback of The World of Null-A but has not, several years later, done the same with The Players of Null-A. I see them out with Voyage of the Space Beagle this month...

It has been a long time since I've read Slan or the two Null-A books; I'll toss them on to Mount Toberead before getting into the sequels by these two puppies.

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In 1971, science fiction lost of its greatest advocates on this day.

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A most excellent movie!

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"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." (Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I)

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Equal rights for apes.

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