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...warming as the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," has been replaced as chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In his four years in the post, Inhofe held a total of five hearings on climate change, and the star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also help field a flock of green bills being offered by newly...
...appeal came after last year's High Court ruling, which rejected Baigent and Leigh's claims that Brown had copied major themes from their 1982 non-fiction best-seller, including the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and that his descendents are still around today. Back in April, all eyes were on the trial and the ruling was hailed as a victory for the freedom of ideas. It even made a minor celebrity of Justice Peter Smith when he cheekily embedded a coded message into his written decision. This time around, few knew (or cared) that the appeal was even...
...amazon.com will show that Hunter has already published two Swagger sequels. There are other conspiracies to uncover, or invent, other countries in need of a superhero. Readers and moviegoers need him too, as an imaginary solution to monstrously real problems. It's too bad that Swagger is a fiction, and that the notion of one man who can right wrongs is less plausible than the conspiracy fears that summoned him up as a solo world police force...
...What made you want to direct The Last Mimzy? I was a big science fiction fan growing up and I read the story when I was 14. It stuck with me as a fascinating idea about kids having their minds opened to many different kinds of influences and teaching before their brains get hardwired. So when [producer] Michael Phillips walked into our office some 15 years ago and said he had acquired the motion picture rights to that short story, I really perked up. After thinking about it, rereading the short story and talking to Michael, I thought there wasn...
...said Reyzl R. Geselowitz ’10, the only spectator watching a reenactment of Julius Caesar’s assassination yesterday in commemoration of the Ides of March. Despite the low turnout on the steps of Memorial Church for the yearly dramatization by the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA), the group was not deterred from performing its abridgement of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” showing up in bedsheets and bathrobes and one imperial Halloween costume. No members of the organization were able to say precisely how long HRSFA has been...