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Watch The New ‘Mass Effect 3′ Official Launch Trailer

March 2, 2012Erik Kain

The dramatic launch trailer for the third Mass Effect game shows just how awesome this game is going to be, and just how much love and care BioWare has put into the game. Building off everything that has made this series a success, Mass Effect 3 looks even more dramatic and graphically jaw-dropping than its […]

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SciFi Book Club: Embassytown Part Five – Notes

February 27, 2012Erik Kain

We begin to see the fallout of the death of Ra and the cleaving of EzRa as the Embassytowners start to run out of datchips of the god-drug’s voice. Ariekei begin to become violent in their addiction, especially as the drug-voice wears off, runs out. The addicted Ariekei cling to the loudspeakers. We see our […]

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Lego To Release Lord Of The Rings Line Of Toys

February 6, 2012Erik Kain

I confess: if I could, I would totally still play with Legos. Especially these Legos: Don’t worry, it’s not just the Lego Fellowship you can play with – the villains, or at least some of the villains, will be available, too: No word on whether or not you can build a Lego Shire yet, but […]

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Star Wars Samurai Art

February 4, 2012Erik Kain

If Star Wars had been set in feudal Japan, this is what a Storm Trooper would look like: That’s from digital artist Clinton Felker. See more amazing images at BuzzFeed. Now I kind of wish they’d extend the Star Wars universe into a more Far Eastern setting… See also: Star Wars Isn’t a Religion It’s […]

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Star Wars Samurai Art

February 4, 2012Erik Kain

If Star Wars had been set in feudal Japan, this is what a Storm Trooper would look like: That’s from digital artist Clinton Felker. See more amazing images at BuzzFeed. Now I kind of wish they’d extend the Star Wars universe into a more Far Eastern setting… See also: Star Wars Isn’t a Religion It’s […]

Read more at Forbes.

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SciFi Book Club: Embassytown And The Garden Of Eden

February 3, 2012Erik Kain

Commenter ‘aawiegel’ has a very astute observation on the Hosts and their planet Ariekei in the book Embassytown: I may be a bit off base here, but I think this point of the story almost becomes Biblical allusion. Before the arrival of humans, the Hosts would always tell the truth, and the sound of a […]

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SciFi Book Club: Embassytown And The Invention Of Lies

February 2, 2012Erik Kain

This post covers material through chapter Formerly 10 of Embassytown by China Miéville- the entirety of Part 3: Like As Not. Toward the end of Part Two, the tension in the book begins to become palpable. At the Festival of Lies we see how the Hosts become almost delirious with ecstasy when the Ambassadors tell them stories. […]

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Book Club: Embassytown by China Miéville

January 4, 2012Erik Kain

  China Miéville is well known in the science fiction and fantasy universe for his dark, literary steam-punk novels and his extraordinary prose. In 2011 he published his latest book, Embassytown, and my Forbes colleague Alex Knapp and I are going to be running a chapter-by-chapter book club on the new novel. It’ll be nice […]

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Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ and the Science Fiction of Corporatism

December 28, 2011Erik Kain

Ridley Scott’s new science fiction film is set to release in 2012. How will it deal with our future corporate overlords? A lot of science fiction deals with the theme of a future of massive corporate overlords. A book like Neuromancer basically takes it for granted that the future is pretty stateless, governed instead by an ad […]

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How Firefly Fans and Neil Gaiman Used Social Media to Save Free Speech

December 27, 2011Erik Kain

Firefly fans and the Foundation for Individual Rights in helped protect free speech, and a university professor’s job, with a little help from author Neil Gaiman and Twitter. (Note: beat me to the punch on this one. Read his post here.) Social media is changing the world and certainly University of Wisconsin professor James Miller […]

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