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Welcome to the web home of genre writer Bill Ward! If you’re a fan of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror — whether reading it, watching it, or writing it — then you’ve come to the right place. Go ahead and subscribe to my RSS feed so you don’t miss a thing. Go on and click [...]
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I’m always interested in what amateur filmmakers can do now-a-days — a while back I linked to The Hunt For Golum, a Lord of the Rings ‘fanfilm’ that was made with a small budget and limited resources. I just saw another fanfilm, this time for the video game universe of Half-Life. Escape From City-17 is [...]
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So, Halloween — for me that means zombie movies. And not just any zombie movies, but zombie movies of the George A. Romero stripe. I’ve never been a big fan of horror films in general but zombies — well, zombies are another thing entirely. Zombie films embody all the things I want in entertainment; post-apocalyptic [...]
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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is a series of very stylish Steampunk-infused animated short films about an airship navigator that finds himself on strange and horrifying voyages. The first episode, Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship, is available free to watch on the web, and from the first sepia-toned images of a smokey [...]
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Last Friday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first airing of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s classic spec fic anthology series that is even better than you remember it. Twist endings, social commentary, nostalgia, weirdness . . . when The Twilight Zone was good, it was very good, and when it was great there was [...]
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“Guardedly optimistic” is a state of mind familiar to all those genre fans who have not yet devolved completely into snarling fanboys. It’s a state many of us let our engines idle in between the news of the development of project or property dear to our hearts — like the adaptation of a favorite book [...]
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The Shatner-Nimoy double-act opened Dragoncon this year — of course, I missed it. But I knew it’d end up on youtube that evening, and here it is in all its bitchy, bantery glory.
Seven parts, which you can find when each section ends.
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For all of us chomping at the bit for the upcoming season of Dexter, the first episode of which debuts on September 27th, the folks at Showtime have released a nice teaser trailer.
Looks to be an interesting season of suburban angst and weird juxtapositions — par for the course for a show that always manages [...]
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