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Per Ellison, "He said that he ripped off a couple of my episodes of "Outer Limits."" Specifically, it would have been the "Outer Limits"...

Fall of the House of Usher. Obviously many of us read it in school and it is well known. But this is such a beautifully written and...

There was also the admission to ripping him off that was made during an interview. I can't remember if Dick was mentioned during it.

A bit of that is because Ellison was really litigious and a loud prick, where-as the estate of PkD wasn't. So only one inspiration got...

Definitely Ellison. There was an agreement in place that all showings of "The Terminator" would include the line "We wish to acknowledge...

The best modern Sword & Sorcery magazines: Tales From the Magicians Skull: the most polished, with great art and the most established...

so, I'm watching a season 3 episode of the OG L&O and the plot is A Jewish Holocaust survivor is accused of killing his wife in order to...

Nayeli Clemente has died. https://people.com/gymgoer-24-dies-after-fitness-event-in-extreme-heat-11732063

Johnny Rodriguez has died. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/groundbreaking-country-music-star-dead-172155067.html

There are two SciFi short stories, that immediately come to mind: Read this and imagine what kind of movie we would have gotten, if it...

So many to choose from... How about Oscar Wilde? The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince are incredible.

The Cask of Amontillado

One of my favorite short stories in any genre is O. Henry’s “Ransom of Red Chief”. Tangent: that short story clearly influenced the...

I'm a big fan of short stories as a medium, both in reading and writing them. I buy The Best American Short Stories and the O'Henry...

To be more accurate, I should have written “an” instead of “the”. But it was actually an early interview about the first Terminator...