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On a fateful birthday about a decade ago, I was going to invest in a gift to myself and get the Library of America three-volume P. K. Dick collection. I had only read A Scanner Darkly at that time. I didn't get the set, and now a decade later I've still ONLY read Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Time's...

I'm reading The Design of Design by computer scientist Fred Brooks (a book about the design process), a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (older book, marvelous "old book" smell!), and finishing the last of my A. C. Clarke collection, The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night.

Great to see some MST3K refs here. I was going to say "Exorcist, Omen" but Tom beat me to it (and then some...), but I think I can contribute a few worthy examples of the genre. I enjoyed the 2005 film Constantine (Directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia...

Hey, don't blame "a new generation," Roy P. Mackal suggested this in his 1976 book The Monsters of Loch Ness, which includes an artistic rendering of "a hypothetical thick-bodied eel" along with other hypothetical, plesiosaur-like amphibians as possible candidates, and even a "hypothetical (but...

I used to read\watch some sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, stepped away from the stuff for a while (not an intention, it just kind of faded from my viewscreen), I'm returning to some of the stuff and I'm not a big fan of social media. Old-school forums (and beige cathode-ray monitors and...