The Three Times I Saw God in Science Fiction Movies
Josh Billings
1. The first time I saw God He was yelling at William Shatner. Shatner was yelling back. I was twelve years old. Judging by his belly and makeup, Shatner was… Read more »
1. The first time I saw God He was yelling at William Shatner. Shatner was yelling back. I was twelve years old. Judging by his belly and makeup, Shatner was… Read more »
I first encountered the word “Tunguska” the way everyone should encounter it: in a dank, dimly-lit room, surrounded by fellow true believers and the reek of freshly-delivered pizza. It had… Read more »
Like most men of science, Serge Voronoff was a romantic. His dream was simple: to prove the viability of cross-species tissue grafts—or, in layman’s terms, to replace the past-their-prime testicles… Read more »
10. Here is how it will end: you will be on a train. You will be walking down a street, in St. Petersburg. You will be riding a red horse.… Read more »
On July 27th, 2012, Vladimir Churov made a surprise appearance. The surprising part wasn’t that he appeared: after all, as both the man in charge of Russia’s recently-concluded presidential elections… Read more »
The most memorable moon in Russian literature is no moon at all. It appears—like the most memorable everything else in Russian literature—in Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin as the face… Read more »
One thing that science fiction writers appear to have agreed on over the years is that the future will not be funny. Shiny? Yes. Jumpsuited? I think we can count… Read more »
In 1968, or so the story goes, Gene Roddenberry had a problem. His critically-acclaimed television series Star Trek was being attacked in the press – not the American papers, but the Soviet ones.
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