5 Sci-Fi Series That Outlived Their Authors

It’s always a sad time when an author passes on.  His friends, his family, and above all his fans come together and mourn the passing of a person who enlightened and entertained them.

Then the fans want to know when the next one is coming out. And usually there’s somebody there who will oblige them, especially if it’s a science fiction author. Here are five great authors whose series kept going on without them.

10 TV Shows That Died too Soon

One thing that never fails; most TV shows never get a proper resolution. Really, it’s just nature of the medium. But that usually means that a show that has a chance to be pretty awesome never gets a chance to fly. And nowhere is this more true than SF shows, which always hurt because there’s not enough of the good stuff in the first place. Here are ten TV shows that barely had a chance to get started, forget tell a good story.

Five Lost Works of Art (That Weren’t So Lost)

Works of art are lost all the time, usually because human beings act like the morons above. There’s nothing we, as a species, really seem to like better than gathering up the sum of all our knowledge and using it as combination toilet paper and kindling. We burn classic film prints, we lose the only copy of priceless artifacts, and we misclassify paintings… a lot can happen. Fortunately, despite our ability to destroy virtually everything, we’re also really good and turning that stuff back up. Here are five works of art we thought we’d wrecked that turned up again, kind of like whack-a-mole.

Ten Stupidest “Sexy” Costumes

If there’s one thing we all know from that hilarious “Sexy Mustard” video, it’s that costumes come in two varieties for women; dumpy and “sexy”. And there’s nothing wrong with a little sex appeal, right? Right? Well, there is when it’s something not remotely sexy. Like for example!

Five TV Shows That Did Better After Being Canceled

Ever since “Star Trek” limped to the end of its third season, only to live on in the hearts of fans, TV shows have this tendency to cling to the mind. So much so that sometimes, the show actually makes more money off of being canceled than it ever did actually being on the air, so much so that sometimes, it’ll even come back.

Five Fictional Drinks People Actually Created

As long as there has been fiction there have been alcoholic beverages that just don’t exist, no matter how much we want them to. This is generally because brands featured in movies and TV shows that haven’t paid for the privilege will sue, but also because sometimes a drink just needs to exist, even if the cruel realities of physics and chemistry will never let it truly happen.

Five Sci-Fi Adaptations That Chainsawed the Source Material

There’s nothing more fun than an adaptation of a classic that gets it right, and there’s nothing more excruciatingly painful than one that gets it terribly, terribly wrong. Unfortunately, when it comes to SF, there’s more of the latter than the former. We’re not sure why.

The Five Most Hilarious Star Wars Rip-Offs From Around the World

“Star Wars” was and is a profoundly influential film that has changed the course of cinema history, both for good and for ill, in the case of the prequels mostly ill. But one thing it’s undeniably done is make money by the bucket, and where there’s money, there’s people desperate to cash in. Here are the five greatest Star Wars ripoffs we could find.

5 Shows That We Need An Ending For

The term “cliffhanger” was either invented by Clifford Barton Hangar to describe a suspenseful ending, or is a slang term for the old days of cheesy “Perils of Pauline” style stories where the protagonist was left hanging off a cliff. It’s probably that second one because we made the first one up. No matter who created them though, the cliffhanger has one big problem: when nobody comes back to resolve it.

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