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ByMichael Hanson

Think About It! The truly horrific part of the famous AFib Paddles bursting through Vance’s Chest Sequence in John Carpenter’s THE THING, is NOT Vance Norris’s chest turning into a giant mouth full of jagged fangs and biting Dr. Copper’s hands off! The truly horrific part, that lingers in your mind long after seeing the…

FIRST CONTACT IN FILM AND PRINT

ByEdward McKeown

Following on my discussion of ARRIVAL, I updated an article that was published in the Science Fiction Writer’s Bulletin on First Contact.     This has been handled wonderfully as in Ray Bradbury’s “It Came from Outer Space” and miserably as in an episode  “Star Trek- Enterprise” when Captain Archer, informed that an alien ship was…

Ink Master: Pop Culture or Ancient Heritage

Ink Master: Pop Culture or Ancient Heritage

ByMichael Hanson

PERHAPS PREDATING ALL WRITTEN LANGUAGES, tattooing has been around for many millennia. The oldest mummified and tattooed human being dates to roughly 3,250 BC, and perhaps scientists will one day find the remains of tattooed individuals thousands of years older still. Tattooing sprouted from many different cultures for the multi-use purposes of decoration, identification, ritual…

Rhysling Eligible Poem

Rhysling Eligible Poem

ByMichael Hanson

A favorite poem of Michael H. Hanson that was published in 2018 and is eligible in the Short Poem category of the Rhysling Awards. ——–  THE SEA HORSE ISLES His father was a fishermanknown for trawling the Sea Horse isles,a stretch of brine only his clanhad dared to challenge with their wiles. They say it…