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Pink Raygun provides interviews, reviews, commentary and articles with a strong emphasis on women working in genre (science fiction/fantasy/horror) entertainment. We provide a smart, saavy yet girly place for fangirls (and boys) to get their geek on!
Recent Posts Tagged With 'science fiction'
V: There is No Sci-Fi Anymore
By Lisa Fary - This episode of V, “There is No Normal Anymore”, was like drinking Bud Light while listening to Matchbox 20 and wearing the chino pants/ white tee/ cardigan combo: an exercise in lifeless predictability and blandness. ...
Scary Word of the Day: Feminized Sci-Fi
There’s no place for women in science fiction. It’s about men! Manly men! Doing manly things! For the entertainment of other men! Men viewing at home, not in their respective fictional ‘verses! But, not in a slashy way! You know what I mean! ...
My Vagina Killed Your Jetpack
By Lisa Fary - Damn it. Didn’t we just go over this? I really have to address this wacko female-gay ghetto idea again? Screw you and your barbaric idea of gender appropriateness! Now get your ass in the kitchen and make me a potpie. Oh, right, that...
Books: Mind Over Ship
By Lisa Fary - Even in the future, corporate intrigue isn’t all that interesting. But, throw in a space colonization and a dead woman’s mental presence in the fish population, and the story gets pretty interesting. ...
District 9: They come in peace, We come in capitalism
By Sonia Aurora - I think it’s safe to say that geeks worldwide have been looking forward to the release of District 9. I remember seeing the trailer for the first time a few months ago and thinking, Oh My God, the humans are the villains! I then d...
Books: Counting Heads
By Lisa Fary - When it comes to science fiction, it seems like we’re either going to wind up in a shiny utopia where no one has pockets or a grimy dystopia where machines are the enemy. With his novel Counting Heads, writer David Marusek writes of ...
Defying Gravity: Vomit Comet
By Lisa Fary - We’re now two for two for zero-g antics. Last week: zero-g sex. This week: zero-g puking. ...
It Came From Late Night Cable: Queen of Blood
By Lisa Fary - A 1966 sci-fi horror with Dennis Hopper and Forrest J. Ackerman? Totally! ...
What the Hell is Sargasso Planet?
By Lisa Fary - I love it when unexpected packages show up at my door. For a second, I might let myself think it’s something form a relative I’ve forgotten about or never knew that will propel me on some worldwide adventure. Then I realize that I ...
Movie Review: Moon (2009)
“The Sky is Filled with Stars, Invisible by Day” by Sylvia Bond Whenever Sam Rockwell is in a particular movie, I notice him. Not because he himself is particularly noticeable, but because he is not. Particularly noticeable. In other word...
Fear Agent: The Movie
By Lisa Fary - If you have not read Rick Remender’s brilliant comic series, Fear Agent (previously at Image, currently at Dark Horse), you are missing out. ...
Warehouse 13 Sneak Peek
Today, the SciFi Channel official became SyFy, and later tonight, the newly name-changed network will premiere it's first show of the SyFy era: Warehouse 13. Preview video after the jump. ...
Pink Raygun’s Independence Day Spectacular
By Lisa Fary - To me, July 4th isn’t just about patriotism and pride in the United States - it’s about freedom. Freedom to live the way I want to live, believe what I want to believe. America doesn’t hold a patent on freedom, and Americans are...
