Travel Reads: Ygor by Lee Murphy

What would make a decent-hearted person help a mad man create an abomination? This is the core question of Lee Murphy’s new novel, Ygor.

Absorbit Song Summarizes Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan

Get Scared in Kentucky

Where will you find the largest convention of horror and paranormal in the United States? Well, according to Scarefest, that would be Lexington, Kentucky, on Sept. 11, 12 and 13, 2009.
At Scarefest you’ll find ghosts and ghouls ambling alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface. And, if you’re really brave, you can have your photo taken in [...]

Harry Potter Comes to Boston

Harry Potterâ„¢ fans will get the chance to step inside the famous wizard’s magical world through Harry Potter: The Exhibition, which opens at the Museum of Science in Boston, on October 25, 2009 and runs through February 21, 2010. The Museum of Science is the first East Coast venue to host the exhibition and the [...]

An Interview with Aldous Huxley

Animation Supercon Reunites Futurama Cast

Animation Supercon is set for October 2-4, 2009, in Miami, Fla., at The Doubletree Miami Airport Hotel and Convention Center. Special guests include the cast of Matt Groening’s science fiction animated TV show Futurama: Billy West (Philip J. Fry), John Dimaggio (Bender), Phil Lammar (Hermes Conrad) and Maurice LaMarche (”Additional Voices”).
Also making an appearance is [...]

Michael Crichton On the Future

London Bridge Is Falling Down, Falling Down …

Many people generally associate ghostly happenings with older regions that have a lot of history. That said, they’d be surprised to find a “Ghost Tour” being lead at Lake Havasu City, a relatively young community, founded along the lower Colorado River in Arizona in 1964 by chainsaw magnate Robert P. McCulloch … except when they [...]

Wired’s List of 100 Geeky Places

Dream of traveling through time? the human body? space? Then there are places for you to go and live that dream.
I give you Doug Cornelius’s list of “100 Geeky Places to Take Your Kids This Summer.”
The list is mostly museums, science centers and aquariums, but there are some other things thrown in for good measure, [...]

Movie Trailer: The Time Traveler’s Wife