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10 Best Geeky Last Words

One of the best …

Try LSD, 100 mm intramuscular.
—Aldous Huxley
(in a note to his wife)

Link: 10 Best Geeky Last Words.

Blade Runner at 25: Why the Sci-Fi F/X Are Still Unsurpassed

Mythbuster Adam Savage writes an article of appreciation towards this classic Sci Fi Movie based off a Philip K Dick novel.

Twenty-five years ago, the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner became an instant science fiction classic. Set in a sodden, squalid Los Angeles of 2019, the neo-noir masterpiece influenced a generation of filmmakers and video-game designers. Long before I teamed up with Jamie Hyneman to form the MythBusters, I was a special-effects modelmaker, and Scott’s cyberpunk gem almost instantly became the most important film in the canon of movies I love.

Link: Blade Runner at 25: Why the Sci-Fi F/X Are Still Unsurpassed

Very Short Stories

Now in six words or less …

Well be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

Link: Very Short Stories