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John Scalzi - Passing Judgment on Indiana Jones and Other Psuedo-SciFi Movies
blogs.amctv.com - 1/9/2009
John Scalzi - Passing Judgment on Indiana Jones and Other Psuedo-SciFi Movies
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I'm looking at the box office records for 2008, trying to figure out just how much of the $9.62 billion in domestic sales can be attributed to science fiction movies. The good news is that no matter how you slice it, scifi accounted for a pretty big chunk of the change, so it seems a pretty ...
REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
sfsignal.com - 1/7/2009
REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
— sfsignal.com — MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A first contact story like no other -- aliens finally come to Earth,... but because their forms are distasteful need an image makeover and hire a Hollywood agent introduce them to humanity. MY REVIEW: PROS: ... (more) REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

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SF Tidbits for 1/9/09
SF Signal — ... John Scalzi discusses Pseudo-SciFi Movies: "I'm having a hard time deciding which of last year's movies should genuinely get credited as scifi, and which just have science fictional elements." ...

Trying To Keep Up
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... for another snow storm today and tomorrow, so soon it will be off to the laundry and the supermarket to lay in survival supplies. I MUST remember to get mayonnaise (Hellmans, of course) as I have an inordinate amount of tuna fish that needs to be turned into salad. See, these are the kind of distracting, mundane things that keep getting me further and further behind on the list of things that need doing. - Truscifi ’s commentary on “what is or is not scifi” (playing off of Scalzi’s AMC piece this week was picked up by File 770 and Mike offers a very amusing ...

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