Here I thought I was off to Seattle, but I couldn’t quite pass up informing you of an event on the other coast: the Pinchbottom Burlesque event, “Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction.”The event takes place at “the plush and decadent upstairs lounge at Madame X in Greenwich Village,” and costs $25. Among the readers is […]

Courtesy of Jonathan Ravid, I’m pleased to present the extremely elegant cover to the Israeli edition of Implied Spaces.

Here’s a potentially useful article titled “How to Fall 35,000 Feet—And Survive.”Because you never known when this kind of information will come in handy.Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile plummet are extra­ordinarily slim, but at this point you’ve got nothing to lose by understanding your situation. There are two ways to fall out of […]

I’ve seen a bunch of stuff lately. None worthy of lengthy analysis, but some worthy of note. Dirigible (1931). In Dirigible, a very early film by Frank Capra, we watch our brave hero Jack Bradon (Jack Holt) battle for the future of US Navy rigid airships! (Well, we know how that turned out.) Our hero […]