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Readers' Picks: Best TV Shows of the Decade

We spent a lot of time brainstorming, voting, arguing and refining our list of The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade. But, of course, we got it wrong. Here’s what our readers chose as the 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade:...  read more

The 15 Best TV Shows That Were Canceled Too Soon

Despite a heap of critical acclaim, Southland got the axe earlier this week. Here are 15 more TV shows that died too young.  read more

Five Genre Fiction Gateway Drugs Other Than Battlestar Galactica (Which is Still Awesome)

With the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series concluded, we've run out of socially-acceptable sci-fi to gush over. That should make you think, shouldn't it? Wouldn't life be more fun if we could step outside of the all-encompassing irony and self-awareness of modern living and allow ourselves a little bit of childlike wonder at the power of the imagination?...  read more

The 11 Best Villainous Species in all of Science Fiction

Whereas your typical Bond villain only wants to take over the earth, most of the dreamed-up civilizations below eat planets like earth for lunch—though our homeworld itself usually lies just beyond their grasp, thanks to often unappreciated heroic maneuvers of the good guys. When we imagine the great beyond, it's not the benign creatures out there that get the blood flowing, but the monstrous, treacherous aliens that would enslave or destroy the galaxy. Science fiction allows us to take up the banner of Us Against Them, where we are free to see Them without humanity, pity or compassion. We long...  read more