Yo, Earthdawgs, This is Elvis, coming to you from outer space, where Larry and I are rocking out to all the CDs I bought at Crooked Beat before we left D.C. We are also watching the movies I bought at Blockbuster. This brings me to my current favorite flip, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Winter. If you haven’t seen it, Kevin and Dana star as two earth people trying to fight off an invasion of aliens who are trying to take over the planet by pods. The aliens put …
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SECOND COMING
Welcome, Book Clubbers! Below are some questions to get the conversation started. Second Coming Be sure to check out Elvis’s blog! In sci-fi movies from the 1950s, the aliens are always hostile and so are the Earthlings—a reflection of the times and U.S. anxiety about our greatest enemies, the Russian communists. Borton reimagines the encounter in a 21st century still anxious, but also obsessed with fame and celebrity. Do you think she gets it right? Would we ply them with presents or …
Elvis’s Blog #3
Hey, dudes, wassup? Elvis here, coming to you from our ship, which is just about to pass Pluto. Pluto is my favorite planet in your galaxy because it is named after a dog, and I LOVE DOGS!! Some of my favorite Earth beings are dogs. Larry is giving me static because he says Pluto isn’t really a planet, and it’s not named for the dog Pluto. He be all like, “Dog, you all damp!” And I be like, “I don’t care. I like my story better.” In case you are worried about little Getlo, my dog, you can …
Elvis’s Blog #2
Earth Dudes, Elvis here. I thought I’d better write again right away because so many of you were worried about Saturn’s moons after my last postal. So I’m writing now to tell all of y’all to chill. We would never hit a moon. I was just pushing your legs. Larry says that I couldn’t hit the broad side of a marmaltyxsorumpus, which is a very big animal that lives in the Honn galaxy. It is about the size of a Taco Bell. Maybe y’all are wondering how I’m communicating with you. I fixed our …
Do other dimensions or alternate universes really exist?
On Parallel Universes and Other Cosmic Weirdness by Tom Burns It all began with a cat. Well, no. Not really. I’m not sure whether the cat exists or not, and therein lies the possibility of parallel universes, or parallel dimensions as this and many other science-fiction novels refer to them. In fact, it all begins with quantum uncertainty. Quantum uncertainty is one of the reasons I have been a big fan of science fiction since my misspent youth. I love the way science fiction …
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