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Vintage articles and footage from the science fiction archives.

Rat Fink is Going to Breed Batgirls with Mole Men!
"He knew that he would do the honorable thing and set that girl free. This boy has fallen in love!" The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Flash Gordon . Top Story - August 2026.
Director Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon (written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.) is a straight cult, camp romp through the four-color, cliffhanger world created by Alex Raymond in the "Flash Gordon" newspaper strips so many decades ago, in a completely different world. Buster Crabbe brought the comic-book hero—a football hero turned swashbuckling pulp outer-space warrior—to serialized life in old 1940s chapter plays, wielding a sword and a two-fisted, can-do, all-American fighting spirit alongside Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov, and against giant reptiles bluescreened against desert backgrounds, where shoebox rocket ships on fishing line with sparklers in their tails set down to do battle with the forces of the Mephistophelian menace Ming the Merciless, who vaguely resembles Anton LaVey. Which, on the whole, makes perfect sense.
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Catspaw
"Catspaw" is all sorts of First-Generation TOS badassery, and who could argue otherwise? It is penned by none other than Robert Bloch, who, when not penning episodes of classic "Thriller" with Boris Karloff, was also creating and documenting the dress-wearing doings of a certain California taxidermist with an old, Victorian manse and a mommy fixation—for that other Great Ghoul, Alfred Hitchcock.
By Tom Baker2 months ago in Futurism
Becoming Hyper-Human
Written by a human, for humans, always. Did you ever have the desire... To become a superhero? That perhaps one day through a genetic alteration, super serum, or a similar event...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM2 months ago in Futurism
The Tarot of Dune
Lynch establishes his voyage into the mystical, into the expansion of a growing consciousness, with his third film, Dune , a sprawling adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction classic, a tale of the young Paul Atreides, a.k.a. “Muad'Dib,” a galactic religious messiah born from the dark, troubled waters of the dreams of a young Duke, whose rulership of the planet Arrakis, a vast, inhospitable desert world, is usurped in an act of treachery by the grotesque, floating Baron Harkonnen, and the Emperor himself.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Futurism
The City on the Edge of Forever
Written by sci-fi guru and perturbable potentate Harlan Ellison, “The City on the Edge of Forever” qualifies as one of the top five episodes of TOS ever produced. It stars Joan Collins as Edith Keeler in a story that underscores the logical paradoxes and pitfalls of time travel.
By Tom Baker3 months ago in Futurism
When taken as a whole, the findings are assisting researchers in filling in important knowledge gaps on how prehistoric people lived and adapted during a poorly recorded period.
At the very least, outrageous ideas that assert Russian President Vladimir Putin has somehow survived two world wars may help to explain his heinous actions in the twenty-first century. Thousands of people have died on both sides of the battle in eastern Europe, and the 73-year-old has blood on his hands after ordering Russian forces to invade Ukraine.
By Francis Dami3 months ago in Futurism
I Replaced My Smartphone with a 2004 Dumbphone. The Experiment Failed, but the Realization Changed Everything.
I bought the Nokia 3310 on eBay for twenty-two dollars. It arrived in a padded envelope that smelled faintly of old cardboard and basement storage. Holding it felt like holding a plastic brick—dense, unapologetic, and completely devoid of the sleek, glass-and-aluminum allure of my iPhone 15.
By abualyaanart4 months ago in Futurism
Rock & Rule
Let me preface this review by saying: This film, despite rumors to the contrary, was NOT made by Ralph Bakshi. His name would, logically, have appeared in the titles if it had been.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Futurism
Logopolis
Logopolis is the final jaunt of Tom Baker as the TARDIS-occupying Time Lord before death and regeneration turn him into Peter Davison. It's hard to quantify, insomuch as it has a somewhat cluttered plotline that renders it a Big Think for even the most stalwart Whovian. (Doctorian? Certainly not!)
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Futurism
Spock's Brain
Spock, the First Officer of the Great Bird of the Galaxy, loses his brain. A guy like Spock, I dlon't have to tell you, a guy who relies on logic, pure emotionless logic ("Enough of your damned green-blooded logic, Spock!" cries Dr. McCoy, who may be able to tolerate green blood, or pure logic, but, for chrissakes, not BOTH embodied in one Vulcan); well, a guy like that cannot dispense with his brain. No siree Bob! Not gonna fly, at Warp Speed, or any other damned speed.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Futurism
Inframan
When I was a kid, the cable television show that fascinated me the most was "Night Flight." "Night Flight" was a couple of HOURS of music videos, rare movies (condensed), interviews, short films, animation, oddities, and what-have-yous that detailed the best and worst of 1987 or thereabouts. (It actually ran from the early Eighties to the early Nineties in various forms, and is still streaming.)
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Futurism