Today’s Studio Foglio newsletter explains: We often receive phone calls of this nature on the steam-powered studio telephone: Steve Jackson: “Phil. Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls. Are you in?” Phil Foglio: “Okay.” The result, it seems, is a Foglio-illustraded game called Spanc. (Work warning: “features PG-rated cheesecake photo of a pirate catgirl-in-bikini.” ) I haven’t […]

I knew someone once who had no interest in science-fiction, and dismissed it with “That could never happen.” That seems to be the mainstream attitude toward SF — try to pit Farscape against Survivor and you know exactly what will happen — and yet they love to see films about the impossible. (Well, as long […]