Robots, brain-eaters, starships — and what we can do with them

Howard Waldrop has a blog. A weekly blog, but a blog nonetheless. Oh my. If you've ever read one of his short stories, then you know what this means. Where other bloggers spend maybe 15 minutes posting a link and a graf or two of set-up exposition, I'll betcha dollars to donuts Howard spends six weeks in intensive historical research before writing a single sentence. I kid you not. This week he delves into the myriad possibilities of brain-eating robot films that were never made. Again, I kid you not.

If this were an American movie from the 1950s it would have John Agar, Mara Corday, and Morris Ankrum in it. The robot would look like Gort or Chani from Devil Girl from Mars. If the brain-eating were literal, the movie would have been made in Mexico or in the late 1950s by AIT (or in the 1980s by Stuart Gordon).

You've simply got to read this to believe it. You can do so over at InfiniteMatrix. Tell 'em I sent you.

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