Disclaimer: I was predisposed to like this one from the beginning, so it’s fair enough to call me a partial and prejudiced reviewer. Jane Austen is often called the first feminist fiction writer, and a new take on her most popular Regency romance — coauthored by Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Kenneth Grahame — puts the [...]

I hate Zombies. Why? Many reasons. They suck at science. They make a big mess wherever they go. (You think my gleaming polished chrome casing will look good with putrid gut splatter on it? I don’t think so!!) Zombies eat brains, and that’s no good. How on earth can we be humanity’s robot overlords when [...]

Who would have thought? A major factor in the extinction of Neanderthal humans may have been cannibalism. The hairy hominids vanished more than 30,000 years ago, with no clear reason why. Some scientists feel that the slightly smarter members of the family, homo sapiens, beat them out for land and resources. But mad cow-like disease, [...]