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Nostalgia has an increasingly powerful effect on a person’s ability to judge the entertainment value of various media types. It seems the older a person becomes the more this fact becomes clear. Having just celebrated another birthday, I am even more aware of the effect nostalgia has on my choice of electronic entertaiment, be it for music, television or movies. For the...
Hello there fellow geeks, my name is Dr. Forge. I’d like to take this opportunity to talk to you about some very interesting developments in the future of space travel.
Before I can do that though, I must bring up one of my all time favorite shows. Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry (who in my humble opinion is a true visionary and prophet of science fiction and science...
If you recognize the title of this article you have at least a passing familiarity with the phenomenon that is Firefly. Firefly is the short-lived (14 episodes and one film) but fanatically beloved western space opera that follows the trials and tribulations of the crew of a derelict 03-K64 Firefly-class transport named Serenity. And rather than to examine the show from the...
Urban fantasy really seemed to blossom around the early 80’s. Authors like Emma Bull and Mercedes Lackey wrote stories about people who appeared fairly mundane being thrust into fantastical situations. Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks (1987) was about a rock musician pulled into the middle of a Faerie war. Mercedes Lackey introduced several books during this time about people in...
Please allow me to introduce myself.
Now, I am not a man of wealth and fame, I am Brian. However, you may know me in the Steampunk Universe as the Rev. Gonz O’Lager and as a correspondent with the Radio Rassilon podcast. I am an actual reverend and I am here to evangelize about a show and philosophy near and dear to my heart: Doctor Who. I’m told I’m a bit of an...
January 2012, sixteen years after the airing of Doctor Who – the Movie, staring Paul McGann and Eric Roberts, I finally debuted my full on attempt at cosplaying this George Lazenby of Who. Unlike the 1996 Doctor, the hair is actually mine, although if you watch McGann’s audition video for the role of the Doctor you will see that McGann actually had the hair already, but...
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Posted by CaelynTek on February 18, 2012 | No Comments The Nostalgia Effect Nostalgia has an increasingly powerful effect on a person’s ability to judge the entertainment value of various media types. It seems the older a person becomes the more this fact becomes clear. Having just...
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Posted by Aloysius Fox on January 19, 2012 | No Comments Media Guest: Jason Carter Babylon 5 Ranger Marcus Cole, also known as British actor Jason Carter, will join the Pandoracon festivities this September. Born in London and raised in Gainsborough, a small market-town in Lincolnshire, Jason was...
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Posted by Aloysius Fox on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment Guest Artist: Billy Tackett Announcing Billy Tackett as Pandoracon’s guest artist! With humble beginnings in rural KY, award winning artist Billy Tackett freelanced tirelessly for 12 years to receive international recognition as an...
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Posted by Aloysius Fox on January 17, 2012 | No Comments Guest Author: Teri A. Jacobs Teri A. Jacobs, dark fantasy author of “The Void” and “Secrets of the Bones,” joins Pandoracon as a guest author. Jacobs is not for the faint-hearted and critics have described her as “a fearless storyteller...
The Nostalgia Effect
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Nostalgia has an increasingly powerful effect on a person’s ability to judge the entertainment value of various media types. It seems the older a person becomes the more this fact becomes clear. Having just celebrated another birthday, I am even more aware of the effect nostalgia has on my choice of electronic entertaiment, be it for music, television or movies. For the...
A Matter of Antimatter
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Hello there fellow geeks, my name is Dr. Forge. I’d like to take this opportunity to talk to you about some very interesting developments in the future of space travel.
Before I can do that though, I must bring up one of my all time favorite shows. Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry (who in my humble opinion is a true visionary and prophet of science fiction and science...
BIG DAMN HEROES: Captain Malcolm Rey...
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If you recognize the title of this article you have at least a passing familiarity with the phenomenon that is Firefly. Firefly is the short-lived (14 episodes and one film) but fanatically beloved western space opera that follows the trials and tribulations of the crew of a derelict 03-K64 Firefly-class transport named Serenity. And rather than to examine the show from the...
Urban Fantasy 101
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Urban fantasy really seemed to blossom around the early 80’s. Authors like Emma Bull and Mercedes Lackey wrote stories about people who appeared fairly mundane being thrust into fantastical situations. Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks (1987) was about a rock musician pulled into the middle of a Faerie war. Mercedes Lackey introduced several books during this time about people in...
Of Prose and Cons
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Please allow me to introduce myself.
Now, I am not a man of wealth and fame, I am Brian. However, you may know me in the Steampunk Universe as the Rev. Gonz O’Lager and as a correspondent with the Radio Rassilon podcast. I am an actual reverend and I am here to evangelize about a show and philosophy near and dear to my heart: Doctor Who. I’m told I’m a bit of an...
Cosplaying the Eighth Doctor
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January 2012, sixteen years after the airing of Doctor Who – the Movie, staring Paul McGann and Eric Roberts, I finally debuted my full on attempt at cosplaying this George Lazenby of Who. Unlike the 1996 Doctor, the hair is actually mine, although if you watch McGann’s audition video for the role of the Doctor you will see that McGann actually had the hair already, but...
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