Arts & Entertainment Sci-Fi Author Frank Herbert Lived in This Potrero Hill House When He Wrote ‘Dune’ For $1.6 million, you can own the house where Frank Herbert wrote the 1965 novel ‘Dune,’ which has yet another Hollywood remake of it opening today.
Arts & Entertainment SF Finally Gets a Comic Con, Kicking Off Today The ratio of nerds to official Comic Cons has always been out of whack in San Francisco, where we cosplay every day but have never had a full-on Comic Con (just WonderCon!) held
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Star Trek Live! Mudd's Women' At The Oasis You don’t need to be a Star Trek fan or a drag show fan to love the new Star Trek Live! show at The Oasis — but you probably do need to be
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Commander Shepard Commander Shepherd from Mass Effect 3 shot by Bob Horowitz.
Arts & Entertainment 'Star Wars' Day at AT&T Park Announced Once again, the creative minds at AT&T announced another Star Wars Day on September 3rd. So, in addition to catching the Giants take on the Diamondbacks, you could receive a limited
Arts & Entertainment Furry Convention Taking Place In San Jose Right Now Further Confusion, billed at the world's largest anthropomorphic (or "furry") convention, is currently spreading lint and color audacity in San Jose now through the 17th. Guests of honor include Blotch and Paul Kidd.
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: <i>Tron Legacy</i> Preview While perusing Laughing Squid this morning, we came across the preview for the Tron sequel, Tron Legacy, which will feature the return of Jeff Bridges and light cycles. (Eeee! Ahem.) The film is
SF News Mars Phoenix Lander Lands On the Internets, Twitter In case any slimy, green Maritans appear, brandishing pointy laser guns--and all experts agree that there will be--keep track of them and the Mars Phoenix Lander on Twitter. It's scheduled to land on
misc Stellar Science Fiction Reading: io9 Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from
