Written By: Angie Jeffrey (News-Times Correspondent) Submitted by: Lesmond Brookfield resident Carol Frei began writing age 13, when she was growing up in Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y. She began suffering from depression when she was 15, and found “writing was very therapeutic and cathartic for me.” In January, she reached an important milestone in [...]

Source: The Northerner Online Written By: Sean Dressman Submitted by: Lesmond Future focus of sci-fi book: Professor links work to anthropology In a genre dominated by pointy-eared Vulcans and guys with lightsabers, people will soon have a new branch to focus on: anthropology-based science fiction. Sharlotte Neely, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University, [...]

Source: CNN Entertainment Written by: Uncle Sam In a letter to a BBC producer named Lance Sieveking, the late C.S. Lewis (died in 1963) wrote that he would be extremely unhappy with any attempt to make his “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” into a live-action on-screen feature. He did [...]

For those, like me, who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Bill Shatner’s part three of his latest “Captain’s series” will have to be a little more patient. The publisher has announced that release of “Captain’s Glory” has been postponed until September 2006. No details for the delay were forthgoing. As soon as we [...]

With the success of the latest “Star Wars” film at the box office, these would appear to be good times for science fiction.

But one sci-fi fanatic at the University of Kansas in Lawrence says the genre is on life support and needs to be rescued.