Star Wars wasn’t good enough. Close Encounters of the Third Kind couldn’t do it. Blade Runner, E.T., and 2001: A Space Oddyssey didn’t make it. WALL-E, King Kong, Forbidden Planet, Farenheit 451, and Jurassic Park lost the race. War of the Worlds, Minority Report and A.I. made millions, but were shut out of Hollywood’s biggest prize. But tonight, after ninety years — you read that right, nearly a century — the Oscar for Best Picture went to a science fiction film. For. The. First. Time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first handed out prizes for film achievement in…
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Sherlock Holmes as you never imagined her
Good news for Sherlock Holmes fans! If you’re as much a fan of Sherlock Holmes as I am, you’re going to love the new Baker Street Irregulars anthology! Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot is the second anthology in a well-received series of short stories, curated by the excellent Michael A. Ventrella and NYT best-selling editor Jonathan Maberry, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are re-imagined in, let us say, alternate forms. My story, “Papyrus”, is about a version of Sherlock you haven’t seen before. But rest assured, you will recognize the sleuth of Baker Street and his faithful…