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“I began writing a song in my head about the drudgery of being an astronaut. An entire verse fell out of my mind and onto the page”: The classic song that transformed Elton John into a global superstar

“Unfortunately, people identify it with David Bowie’s Space Oddity”

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‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star

‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’

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Strange New Words: Space's sci-fi reader's club

Join Space.com's monthly, virtual reading community where we enjoy science fiction one short story at a time.

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I Rewatched A Forgotten Disney Horror Film For The First Time In Decades, And It's Somehow Better And Worse Than I Remember

You can finally watch this lost Disney horror movie on Disney+.

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A Michael B. Jordan Flick With Only 31% On Rotten Tomatoes Has Quietly Been Climbing The Streaming Charts

You can still catch up on this MBJ movie anytime.

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50 Years Ago, One Shocking Sci-Fi Film Quietly Changed Two Genres At Once

The 'Stepford Wives' is just as relevant today as it was in 1975. Maybe even more so.

Inverse

Trump supporters are missing the point of this provocative magazine cover

It’s a picture that speaks a thousand words.

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"I heard Portishead’s Dummy on the radio and thought to myself: ‘I can make that'": Air's Moon Safari is 25 years old, but still sounds like it will be made in 25 years' time. Here's the story of the greatest chillout album ever

And why you should see them play the whole album live this year…

MusicRadar

7 Great Horror Short Stories That Deserve Their Own Frightening Movie Or TV Adaptation

These short horror stories would make great movies or TV shows.

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Michael Bishop obituary

Experimental science fiction writer who looked to distant worlds and ages to address eternal human concerns

The Guardian - UK

Joanne Harris: ‘When I first read Ulysses I hated it with a passion’

The Chocolat author on the magic of Ray Bradbury, beating Ulysses fatigue, and the poetry of Wuthering Heights

The Guardian - UK

Will the planet outlive my dying laptop?

I may be in denial about my computer being on the blink, but after another hot and muggy Halloween, one thing is frighteningly clear

The Guardian - UK

"Dumb Donald": How beers became partisan

As our country becomes more overtly partisan, so do the beer labels

Salon

To see or not to see: Edinburgh fringe’s startling plays about perception

Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways

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One of the OG System Shock's devs is streaming the remake: 'We see our feet, never coulda done that in 1994'

Marc LeBlanc was a longtime Looking Glass employee who worked on System Shock and Thief.

Salon

Grief is a distant planet: Sci-fi & dad

From Madeleine L'Engle to Ray Bradbury, sci-fi favorites from childhood help me make sense of my sorrowful present

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: what if censoring books only makes them more popular?

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to novels about trans children, attempts to suppress works of literature tend to have the opposite effect

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Best nonfiction of 2022: Great books that will make you think

Ray Bradbury once wrote that books are dangerous because reading them can lead you to change your mind. That danger is also what makes a good book such a delight to read. In compiling this year’s list of the best nonfiction, I’ve borne Bradbury’s admonition in mind. The volumes I’ve…

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Stop Spazzing Out About 'Spaz'

Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship

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James Cameron on 'Avatar,' expectations and maybe diving Lake Superior

James Cameron has beat the odds, he's beat the naysayers and he's beat himself. But he couldn't beat COVID-19.

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 horror short stories

With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in

The Guardian - UK

Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’

As he releases his first short story collection, the revered writer talks about magic, the problem with superhero movies and why he will never write another graphic novel

The Guardian - UK

’Tis the season to be spooky: have you decorated your Halloween tree yet?

With just a month left till trick-or-treat time, artificial Christmas trees are being dragged out of lofts and given a hellish makeover. Forget tinsel and candy canes – think bats, cobwebs and crime-scene tape

Tribune News Service

Karla Peterson: A new Comic-Con oral history lets the geeks do the talking

SAN DIEGO — How big is author Mathew Klickstein's new oral history of San Diego Comic-Con? As big as it needs to be.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pulse of the Heartland: Waukegan voters tired of pols who sail into their harbor city before elections then leave them adrift

Residents told the Sun-Times they want public officials to take a holistic approach to the problems facing their lakefront city. “So it’s not just, oh, do this, vote this way, and boom, now we’re good. We need leaders who take a macro vision,” said photographer Jordan Esparza-Kelley.

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