Elementary Demonstrates the Right Way to Update a Classic Hero, io9.com, May 2013
Loving the Alien: David Bowie’s History of Science Fiction Film, Strange Horizons, April 2013
Growing Up Monstrous with Park Chan-wook’s Stoker, io9.com
Hell Here: Catwoman and the Superhero Origin Story, Strange Horizons, February 2013
Cloud Atlas, Strange Horizons, December 2012
The Persistence of Memory: Cinematic Time Travel in the Surreal, Strange Horizons, October 2012
Girl Wonder: Lawn Dogs, Hard Candy, and the Age of Innocence, Strange Horizons, August 2012
Putting Out Fires with Gasoline: The Sexuality of Cat People, Strange Horizons, June 2012
“Do Not Wither/Look at Me”: Feminist Identity as Supernatural in Orlando and I am Dina, April 2012
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the Speculative,”, Strange Horizons, February 2012
“Three Dragons,” Fantasy Magazine, December 2011
“Frame Story: Drive, Shame, and the Aesthetics of Identity”, Strange Horizons, December 2011
“There’s No Happy Ending with Me: The Fall,”, Strange Horizons, October 2011
“The Downsides of Dating a God,”, Fantasy Magazine, October 2011
“A Sweet Disorder in the Dress,” Weird Tales #358, September 2011 [PDF download]
“Adaptation (and Other Conversations)”, Strange Horizons, August 2011
“The Weirdest Fairy-Tale Wishes Ever Made,”, Fantasy Magazine, August 2011
“In Praise of the Glorious Mess,”, Strange Horizons, July 2011
“Six A.I. Types Who Annoy Us to Death,”, Lightspeed Magazine, June 2011
“A Strange and Savage Beauty: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy,” Strange Horizons, May 2011
“Interview with Jill Tarter, Director of SETI,” Lightspeed, May 2011
“A silver swan, which had a living grace”: A Brief, Bizarre Collection of Historical Automatons”, Fantasy Magazine, April 2011
“You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions”, Lightspeed Magazine, March 2011
“When the Chatbots Come to Greet Us: Adventures in Algorithmic Intelligence (and Taunting)”, Lightspeed Magazine, February 2011
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: Guessing the Aesthetics of Tomorrow’s Social Media, Lightspeed Magazine, January 2011
“Five Upcoming Plagues (We’re Doomed)”, Lightspeed Magazine, December 2010
“Five Freaky Futures Your Kids Might Face,” Lightspeed Magazine, November 2010
The Top Ten Hammer Films to Horrify You This Halloween, Fantasy Magazine, October 2010
“Five Planets that Will Kill You Dead”, Lightspeed Magazine, October 2010
Ten Cheesetastic Fantasy Flicks for Summer, Fantasy Magazine, July 2010
Launchpad Workshop Recap: Four Fun Things About the Universe, Tor.com, July 2010
Blogging from Launchpad Workshop: Science!, Tor.com, July 2010
Ten Things You Should Know About Eclipse, Fantasy Magazine, June 2010
Eclipse:The Decline and Fall of the Twilight Empire, Tor.com, 2010
Inception: Sci-Fi’s Last, Best Box-Office Hope?, Tor.com, June 2010
The High Untresspassed Sanctity of Space: Seven True Stories about Eugene Cernan, Lightspeed Magazine, June 2010
Nine Hobbits that Could Happen, Tor.com, June 2010
Top Ten Magical Realism Films, Fantasy Magazine, June 2010
Fantasy’s Top Ten Fight Scenes: The Battles, Fantasy Magazine, May 2010
Fantasy’s Top Ten Fight Scenes: The Duels, Fantasy Magazine, May 2010
Hansel and Gretel are Out For: Blood, at Least One Cullen, Tor.com, May 2010
Bad Romance: Ten of Fantasy’s Weirdest Relationships, Fantasy Magazine, March 2010
Curiouser and Curiouser: Alice on Film, Fantasy Magazine, March 2010
Casting (Lots): A Movie News Roundup, Tor.com, February 2010
Ten Fantasy Sidekicks Who Could Do Better, Fantasy Magazine, February 2010
Red Riding Hood Retelling is Go: What Big Teeth You Have!, Tor.com, February 2010
SyFy to Mangle Beloved Fairy Tales; In Other News, Christmas Coming All Year Long to Bad-Movie Fans, Tor.com, February 2010
Pilot Season Attacks!: Revenge of the Genre TV, Tor.com, January 2010
Losing Your Religion: Christian Horror Classics, Tor.com, January 2010
What Will Become of Spider-Man?, Tor.com, January 2010
Fantasy’s Top ten Ham Jobs, Fantasy Magazine, January 2010
2009
The Baker Street Irregulars: Portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, Tor.com, December 2009
Robin Hood Trailer: Robin and the 300 Gladiators?, Tor.com, December 2009
Ten Things You Should Know about New Moon, Fantasy Magazine, November 2009
Shall We Dance?: Legend’s Lily and the Subversion of the Damsel Stereotype, Fantasy Magazine, October 2009
Elvish Songs, Howard Shore, and the Best Creative Process Ever, Tor.com, October 2009
Four Reasons to Watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tor.com, October 2009
Andrew Niccol Not a Fool, Takes Surefire Blockbuster The Host, Tor.com, September 2009
Ten Fantasy Movies that Deserve Remakes, Fantasy Magazine, September 2009
Lena Headey Joins Game of Thrones. Very Interesting…, Tor.com, September 2009
Disney Buys Marvel: Comic Book Fans Everywhere Die Little Deaths, Tor.com, August 2009
Megan Fox Ruins, Illuminates Everything, Tor.com, August 2009
Wolf Man Trailer Dramatic, Romantic, Mildly Nauseating, Tor.com, August 2009
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!: A Movie News Roundup, Tor.com, August 2009
The Bittersweet Broadcast Box-Set: The Middleman on DVD, Tor.com, August 2009
Ten Fantasy Movie Moments that Mess with Us, Fantasy Magazine, August 2009
Populating a Brave New World, Tor.com, August 2009
…But a Whimper: Kings, “The New King, Pt. 2”, Tor.com, July 2009
Three Reasons to Watch The Colony…Or Not, Tor.com, July 2009
Here We Go: Kings, “The New King, Pt. 1”, Tor.com, July 2009
Robot Roll Call: RiffTrax Live in August!, Tor.com, July 2009
A Few Good Men?: Kings, “Javelin”, Tor.com, July 2009
Past, Present, Future: Readercon 2009, Tor.com, July 2009
The Book of David: Kings, “Chapter One”, Tor.com, July 2009
Ruin Me: Kings, “Pilgrimage”, Tor.com, July 2009
To War, and Not Lightly: Kings, “The Sabbath Queen”, Tor.com, June 2009
Words Don’t Settle Debt: Kings, “Brotherhood”, Tor.com, June 2009
Ten Movies to Watch Instead of Star Trek, Tor.com, June 2009
Not Your Father’s Sci-Fi Convention: WisCon 33, Fantasy Magazine, June 2009
Where’s Waldo?: A Movie News Roundup (Rebooted), Tor.com, June 2009
When All Else Fails, Add a Tagline: A Movie News Roundup, Tor.com, May 2009
Netbook Madness: A WisCon Panel Recap, Tor.com, May 2009
Incoming!: Your Favorite Series Rise from the Ashes or Go Down Swingin’, Tor.com, May 2009
Watching Beyond Angels and Demons, Fantasy, May 2009
The Hits Just Keep On Coming: A Movie News Roundup, Tor.com, May 2009
Encounter at Paley: Notes From the Starship Captain-off, Tor.com, May 2009
Book Midnight Shows Now: A Comic-Book Movie News Roundup, Tor.com, May 2009
The New Flesh: The (Second!) Videodrome Remake, Tor.com, April 2009
Eleventh Hour: “Medea”, Tor.com, April 2009
A Step between Me and Death: Kings, “Judgment Day”, Tor.com, April 2009
The Red-Boot Diaries: Marvel Divas, Tor.com, April 2009
For Kings, the Bell Tolls: A Schedule Change, and What NBC is Doing Wrong, Tor.com, April 2009
Kings: “Insurrection”, Tor.com, April 2009
Sentient-Robot-Building Scientist Cheerfully Dooms Us All, Tor.com, April 2009
“What can he have more but the kingdom?”, Torc.com, April 2009
Top Ten Miscastings in Fantasy Movies, Fantasy, April 2009
Hackers: Back to the Future, Tor.com, March 2009
Time to Begin: Kings, Tor.com, March 2009
Eleventh Hour: Olfactus, Tor.com, March 2009
Eleventh Hour: Subway, Tor.com, March 2009
Eleventh Hour: “Electro, Tor.com, March 2009
Will ‘Kings’ Rule?, Tor.com, February 2009
Eleventh Hour: Minamata, Tor.com, February 2009
The Middleman: The Decimating Dismissal Decision, Tor.com, February 2009
Christopher Nolan to See New Project from “Inception”, Tor.com, February 2009
New Watchmen Photos Confirm: Zack Snyder Did Read the Comic, Tor.com, February 2009
Eleventh Hour: Pinocchio, February 2009, Tor.com
The Year of Magical Thinking, Fantasy Magazine, February 2009
NYCC: A Problem with Panels, Tor.com, February 2009
Eleventh Hour: “Eternal,” Tor.com, February 2009
Picking on Costumed Heroes: The Watchmen Portraits, Tor.com, January 2009
The Long-Awaited DVD Dissemination: The Middleman Coming to DVD, Tor.com, January 2009
Eleventh Hour: “Miracles”, Tor.com, January 2009
Eleventh Hour: “H2O”, Tor.com, January 2009
Cornelia Funke and Brendan Fraser’s Inkheart Q&A, Tor.com, January 2009
Repo! The Genetic Opera – DVD Anatomy, Tor.com, January 2009
A Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Watchmen Producer Speaks Out, Tor.com, January 2009
Companionable Science: Casting Eleven’s Companion”, Tor.com, January 2009
The Fifth Element: Supergreen!, Tor.com, January 2009
2008
Make it So!: Your Guide to the Christmas TNG Marathon, Tor.com, December 2008
The Oldest Computer in the World (That’s Not My Desktop), Tor.com, December 2008
Remaking “The Crow”: Bad Idea, or Terrible Idea?, Tor.com, December 2008
Eleventh Hour: “Flesh”, Tor.com, December 2008
They Shoot, They Score! The Ten Biggest Movies of 2008, and Why, Fantasy Magazine, December 2008
Comic Con’s “Watchmen” Preview: The Good, the Bad, and the Veidt, Tor.com, December 2008
“Ink”: a Trailer, a Movie, a Mystery, Tor.com, December 2008
Eleventh Hour: “Titans”, Tor.com, December 2008
Hollywood Vamps it Up, Tor.com, November 2008
Ten Things You Should Know About Twilight, Fantasy Magazine, November 2008
Eleventh Hour: “Surge”, Tor.com, November 2008
Fantasy’s Guide to Holiday Fashion, Fantasy Magazine, November 2008
Eleventh Hour: Frozen, Tor.com, November 2008
10 Fantasy Movies that Ruined It for the Rest of Us, Fantasy Magazine, October 2008
Eight Reasons You Should be Downloading the First Season of “The Middleman”, Fantasy Magazine, September 2008
“Copperhead”, Fantasy Magazine, August 2008
“Never Asked Questions about ‘The Last Legion’”, Fantasy Magazine, July 2008
Interview with Ekaterina Sedia, Fantasy Magazine, July 2008
“Aztec Rex,” Fantasy Magazine, May 2008
“A Man, a Plan, a Banal – Dark Kingdom,” Fantasy Magazine, April 2008
Ubiquitous Film Review, an occasional Defenestration movie column.
