The original Star Trek series gave us the redshirts – a term, I note, that has grown so popular that my word processor acknowledges it as a word. The concept is even so pervasive that John Scalzi has a successful … Continue reading →
Between a plane flight and before-bed reading, I finally got to read Redshirts last weekend, thanks to DunDraCon. If you haven’t read the novel yet, it’s John Scalzi’s marvelous take on the expendable extra in fiction, especially science fiction. Warning: … Continue reading →
Games Workshop recently decided that because 1) it has an established trademark on Space Marines in a game context and 2) it has recently begun publishing science fiction, it automatically has a “common law trademark” on space marines in science … Continue reading →