Is speculative fiction a result of the decay of society ... or a reaction against it? Read the full story.

Rowling might do an eight Harry Potter book featuring the boy wizard as an adult. Personally, that's something I always expected would happen -- I wouldn't be suprrised to see a trilogy of books about an adult Harry. Read the full story.

Underworld is the story of the secret war between werewolves and vampires, a war that humans have been blissfully unaware of for years, but which now threatens to erupt into our consciousness.

It was also the subject of a lawsuit by White Wolf Games, who claimed that the vampires-vs.-werewolf storyline infringed on its copyrights. Having now seen the movie, I have to disagree with White Wolf -- this movie doesn't actually contain any vampires, so how could it possibly infringe on their copyrights?

A new version of the libertarian activist Web site Bureaucrash is now online.