John Scalzi's novel Redshirts is a meta-parody of Star Trek on par with GalaxyQuest — featuring a theme song by Jonathan Coulton!
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The Showbits Family
On the third anniversary of Showbits' launch, we welcome a new addition to the family: Wordbits, a blog of books, composition, and e-readers.
What If God Was One of Us?
I recently re-watched Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson. While I'm a fan of Will Ferrell's comedies (I love Elf: Smiling's my favorite; and Old School: Frank the Tank, anyone?), I found Stranger Than Fiction to be my favorite of Ferrell's films. Not only because Ferrell broke out of the physical comedy…
Can't Be Worse Than "Darth Tater"
The current brouhaha in a galaxy far far away is the Darth Who naming contest. Seems that Han Solo and Leia Skywalker's brat is following in his grandfather's footsteps, and readers get to decide what his street name will be. To understand why he's doing this, I looked up little Jacen Solo's Wookiepedia entry. Link…
Just an old country doctor…
This week, I finally tackled Crucible: Provenance of Shadows, the first in a trilogy of books that independently examines each of the three main characters of Star Trek: The Original Series. At three times the length of most Trek novels, Crucible initially intimidated me — but with the Spock's book now out, and Kirk's due…
This Will Be A Novel Long Remembered
I recently watched all three original Star Wars films for the first time since seeing them in theaters in 1997 (I bought the DVD set in the fall of 2004). But before watching episodes IV and V, I read the novelizations, as I also did immediately after episode VI. In any such converstion of media,…
Hufflepuff, The Missing Pokémon
Previously available only in theaters and on YouTube, the trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is now on Apple's trailers Web site. I've commented to several people, "I hope the film is better than the book." Knowing Potheads to be almost as fanatical as Trekkers, I half-expected this sincere comment to…