This has been a long time coming but we are finally updating the look and location of our old Harry Potter Website. The older site is still active at harry-potter.xenite.org. However the new site is now live at rowling.xenite.org. We have already transitioned three of the old sections to these new sections: Harry Potter and…
Category: Announcements
20 Years of Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Many Faces of Xenite.Org
On March 14, 1997 I officially launched Xenite.Org as a new collective home for four Websites I had established in various places. I built my first Website (“The Worlds of Michael Martinez”) on CompuServe in a special users’ section I think they called Compuserve Places (or maybe that was Compuserve Personal Pages), where we each received 1…
New Information Added to CompuServe IMPs Site
Our special feature for the CompuServe IMPs online writing group has grown just a little bit. I have been chatting online with some of the IMPs recently and started feeling both nostalgic and inadequate as a biographer. There are so many IMPs and so many IMPcomplishments and yet I have so little time to write them…
Xenite.Org Adds Star Wars Movies Portal
December 17, 2015 is almost upon us and we have finally completed the initial work on a new section of our science fiction and fantasy movies portal for you. Now every good Star Wars fan knows that “The Phantom Menace” was the best of the six George Lucas productions (it has grossed more at the…
Denny’s Offering Free Trip to Fantastic Four Movie Premier
If you would like to attend the premier for the new “Fantastic Four” movie, Denny’s (the restaurant chain) is running a promotion through July 19, 2015. The move premiers on August 4 and you have until July 19 to enter the contest by visiting http://www.dennysfantastic4.com/ to enter. You may recall that Xenite.Org founder Michael Martinez was among…
Edgar Rice Burroughs Returns to Xenite
Years ago we had several sections of content devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, Carson Napier of Venus, John Carter of Mars, and other great characters of science fiction and fantasy fame. When Xenite was reorganized in 2011 we took that content offline. Although we still don’t have the time and resources to…
A Sad but Special Day for Andre Norton Fans
Ten years ago today Andre Norton closed her eyes for the last time in this world. It was a very sad day for many of us, and Xenite.Org was blacked out for 24 hours to ensure that all our visitors knew that Andre was gone. Today fans of the Grand Dame of Science Fiction and…
Legend of the Seeker Fans Push Hard for a Movie
Sam Raimi has been receiving mail from fans of Legend of the Seeker who want him to produce a movie based on the television show. I loved the show myself and watched it every week. I was also privileged to be able to interview Craig Horner in December 2009 (the article was published in 2010)….
Try Our Experimental Search Page
Xenite.Org publishes a lot of content. And though WordPress is improving its site search functionality, you cannot search all the subdomains on Xenite from each other. We have been looking for a way to provide a good, solid site search tool that allows you to search through all our content. Unfortunately, we cannot find a…
Browse the Xenite.Org Network News Sites
Although it may not seem like we update the main Xenite.Org Website very often we do have a lot of activity across our network of blogs and forums. But showing our visitors all that activity has been a real challenge up until now. We’re please to announce that we have rolled out several news sections…
Xenite Updates Features and Emma Watson Galleries
The Xenite.Org Special Features Index page has been updated with links to some of our recently updated feature article sections. These extensive article and photo gallery sections were previously implemented as “microsites” on the old Xenite.Org before we switched over to WordPress. In the June 2011 redesign we took most of the old Xenite content…
Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow
We love the Marvel movies franchise here at Xenite.Org and one of our favorite characters is Natasha Romanov, the Black Widow. Of course, to date she has only appeared in one movie (“Iron Man 2”) but many production stills and trailers have been published to the Internet from the upcoming “Avengers” movie in which Scarlett…