Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Creating Aliens: Ground Rules

Over at HowStuffWorks you’ll find this brilliant post called “How Aliens Work“. Pay careful attention to it. If you want realistic aliens, some of those rules should be firmly planted in your brain. Aliens, of course, would be bound by many of the same rules that we are (the laws of physics for example). Yeah, […]

The Watchmen: Your Thoughts?

Will this be the hit of 09? I’m looking forward to this. I love the look of it, to be honest. Very noir. What do you think?

Science Fiction: Sometimes it’s wrong.

Browsing through today, I discovered a very interesting website that discusses the errors within science fiction, particularly in TV and movies. Some of these errors are, quite frankly, rather stupid on the part of the creators. Such as: In the Star Trek Voyager episode “The Fight”, Voyager encounters a Negative Space Wedgie that is “2 […]