Game of Thrones vs. People Who Only Threw a Fit After-the-fact

George Bush is in the HBO production of Game of Thrones (season one).  Not really.  A replica of his head was dressed up in a manky wig and put on a spike to represent one of the heads King Joffrey lobbed off towards the end of the first season.  Said replica was on the screen for […]

Question: Is “Solar System SF” the future of Space Opera?

Paul Weimer (who podcasted a review of Prometheus with me about a week ago) was kind enough to ask the question in the title, perhaps in some vain hope that I actually know what I’m talking about.  I’ll start by first saying much of what follows is uneducated speculation, in part because predicting trends in […]