Doctor Who: The Daleks (Part 2)
The Survivors is Part 2 of the seven(?!) part story that gives us the first appearance of the classic Doctor Who villains known as the Daleks. As we saw in …
Category: Science Fiction
Doctor Who: The Daleks (Part 1)
This is a follow on from the quick review of the first ever Doctor Who episode An Unearthly Child and I will be looking at the six episodes collectively known …
Doctor Who: Doctor Who? A look at each incarnation of the Doctor
Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction property (1963-1989, 1996, 2005- ) in television history that is unique in the manner that it handles the unavoidable fact that the …
To Protect and Serve When Science Goes Bad
What if the SF movies of the 1950s had been documentaries? Realistic portrayals of an America where mad science was part of everyday life, and a federal agency worked to …
Atomic Roundtable: Harlan Ellison 1934-2018
One of the most incisive and compelling observers of the human condition, Harlan Ellison passed away in his sleep last week at age 84. Everyone who ever met him has a Harlan story, to the point that being in his presence was usually referred to as “witnessing the ‘Harlan Live’ show,” and we here at the Junk Shop are no exceptions. Here are a few.
So what’s so bad about season 3 of Star Trek?
It seems – at least to me – that there is a subset of Star Trek fans who really don’t like the third season of the original series. Why is that?
Zagreb’s most excellent geek-friendly weekend
Every year, on the second weekend in May, Croatia’s capital city Zagreb becomes a sort of haven for geeks of all stripes, because that’s when the annual SF convention, better known as Sferakon, and the annual comic convention, now called the Zagreb Comic Con, are held.