World’s Strangest

The Abominations of Yondo Bruce Pennington has beenin the business a long time. His first sci-fi cover commission came in 1967, for the New English Library 1970 paperback edition of Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. Not a bad start! The book became the sacred text of The Church of All Worlds, a religious group [...]

When you take your stand along the gummy worm’s path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of yellow sprinkles. Crafted from a 2-foot-long gummy worm, Haribo gummy bears, black licorice string, yellow sprinkles, and rock candy crystals! A scene from the great science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Here we [...]

It’s no real surprise that Wikipedia has a thorough list of these, but it’s interesting to parse through the many, and find a neat collection of songs and albums that were based on, or influenced by books. Led Zeppelin has a scatological lyric library referencing JRR Tolkien, but let’s see what else is out there. 13. Alan Parson’s [...]

Alone in the Wild: Yukon Survival Saga How to eat porcupine livers, and more! Unusual and Marvelous Maps Alternate histories, sea monsters, weird politics Airships & Tentacles Exclusive Interview with artist Myke Amend Jet Engines on Trucks (For Fun and Profit) Snow-blowers from hell, and more… August 31, 2009 – SFSiteUniverse at Play: Two Must-Read Novels of the Fantastic Plus reviews of Frank Herbert’s [...]

SF SITE UPDATE: This week over at SF.DRB site: Two Must-Read Recent Novels of the Fantastic -> Avi Abrams reviews “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon and “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell - “Just when you thought science fiction had safely settled into predictability and conventional form – along come two books that turn all those conventions [...]