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Wizards of the Coast Founder Peter Adkison Quits AI Video Production, Admits It’s Better and Cheaper
Gen Con owner and Wizards of the Coast founder Peter Adkison announced this week that he is abandoning video production entirely rather than use artificial intelligence or compete against companies that do. Adkison, who built his fortune commercializing Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons for three decades, canceled every film production he had …
The BasedCon-sensus
BasedCon is a small science fiction and fantasy convention in West Michigan, founded in 2021 by novelist Robert Kroese as an alternative to Worldcon and the rest of institutional fandom.
How Paramount Gutted Margaret Wander Bonanno’s Star Trek Novel And Called It “Probe”
Star Trek: Probe hit shelves in April 1992 promising to answer one of the biggest lingering questions the franchise had left dangling since 1986: where the alien probe from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home came from and what it wanted. Credited to Margaret Wander Bonanno, the novel reached number six on the New York Times Best Seller List and held a spot t…
Castalia House Launches Complete English Translation of Eiji Yoshikawa’s Sangokushi
Castalia House has begun releasing the first complete English translation of Eiji Yoshikawa’s Sangokushi, the retelling of the Three Kingdoms saga that has stayed continuously in print in Japan for over eighty years. The publisher will release all ten volumes in daily installments over the next two weeks, giving English readers the full epic in a compre…
Lanterns Episode 5 Delivers the Season’s Best Action, Then Buries It Under Message-Fic
Lanterns hit its highest point for spectacle with episode five, “Lights Out,” an hour that finally cashes in the mystery the first four episodes built and blows up half of Rushville doing it. It is also the episode where the show’s worst habits, the same ones that turned a nude sketching scene into a slog in episode four, stop being an occasional distra…
Jacksepticeye Jokes About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination on Stream
Jacksepticeye (Seán McLoughlin), a high-energy Irish YouTuber who spent a decade selling Let’s Plays, charity streams, and a family-friendly brand, recently dropped a line on stream: “You look like Charlie Kirk. You want to get Kirked?” After the clip spread and comments piled up, the line disappeared from the uploaded video. The raw footage did not.
J. Michael Stracyznski Complains About Writers Being Left Out Of Convention Celebrations Of 40th The Anniversary Of Ghostbusters
Writers in Hollywood get some of the fewest accolades out there. Whenever people think of films, they tend to think of actors first, and then directors if a celebrity director gets involved in a production. But who remembers the writers? The people who actually penned the stories?
Lilly Wachowski Says J.K. Rowling “Funds Trans Genocide,” But Rowling’s Team Responded With Facts Instead of Fire
The Matrix just compared bestselling novelist J.K. Rowling to a genocidal regime, twice, unprompted, in a major trade publication. In most entertainment news cycles, that’s the story for days: the accusation, the fallout, the think pieces. This time, the comparison barely made a ripple beyond a single correction from the other side’s camp, and it’s just…
Harlan Ellison’s Audiobook Rant Proves Star Trek Was Right to Rewrite Him
Harlan Ellison’s audiobook edition of The City on the Edge of Forever opens not with the Hugo-winning teleplay fans expect, but with roughly three hours of Ellison himself, recorded before his death in 2018, detailing exactly how badly Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek’s production staff mistreated him. The audiobook, narrated in part by Ellison, LeVar Burton, Jean Smart, and Stefan Rudnicki, pairs that introductory essay with the writer’s original drafts of the episode, letting listeners hear the unfilmed version alongside the story that actually aired in 1967.