"Alien is a rape movie with male victims," explains David McIntee, author of the Alien study Beautiful Monsters. "It is a film that plays, very deliberately, with male fears of female reproduction."

This is the piece that will make "waxing Jonesian" a household expression for the act of suturing comix to architheory. Hooah.

Via Randy. In one or two places I'm not quite sure what point the author of this piece is trying to make - the language is oddly stilted - but I sure am grateful for the loving way in which these images have been assembled. (Especially those from films I've forgotten entirely, like "Saturn 3"!)

Always worth repeating. As is the related finding that Jerry Pournelle (some of whose tripe I absorbed between the ages of 11 and 15) really is a champion douchelord. Fuck you, Jerry, wherever you are.

<strike>And these, if I'm not mistaken, would have been for a script penned by William Gibson.</strike> I'm mistaken.

How much do I love Dourish and Bell? Via M. Nova.

OK, sure, why not? Via La Boyer.

via Matt Webb

The first parkour procedural?

Angus McKie's starship illustrations, collected in these big glossy books, permanently put the zap on my head when I encountered them at the age of 10 or so.

Yesssssss.

Race and color, in written sf and its voyage to the silver screen