Star Wars Modern

First issue Last summer my friend Eric Matthies reached out to me because he was planing to publish an anthology, "in the spiri...

(Return to Scene Two) You haven't missed anything. Scene Three - which shows David moving through the ship alone - is one best, and ...

(Return to Scene One) There are large swaths of the original Prometheus script I left untouched. I don't plan to repost those s...

(Return to Prologue) It bugged me that in the original version, Shaw and Holloway were searching for cave paintings of star constellat...

If you have not seen Ridley Scott's Prometheus , what follows won't make a whole lot of sense, and even if you have this may be ...

Drones: Stanley Kubrick, 2001; A Space Odyssey (1968); Ridley Scott, Prometheus (2012)    Writing about the counterfactual h...

Men In Black and Brown I watched both HBO's  Westworld  and the second season of Amazon's  Man in the High Castle  with deepe...

In his 1972 book, Society And The Healthy Homosexual , the psychotherapist and gay activist,   George Weinberg ,  coined the term "...

Neo -avant-garde (1999); Historical Avant-garde  (1916) . The impulse to write my first essay about Star Wars  was born out of a fr...

"Basement in Selma"  Franklin McMahon  (1965) - illustration for Look Magazine [RLP standing at center] I traveled to Sel...

MUDC work train on the 3rd Avenue El .  [This is the sixth short story in a series,   the 1st story is  here , the 2nd is  here , the 3rd...

The Craven Family, Peter Manzel (2001) When I started working on this series of short stories about the second half [2H] of the 21st C...