The best science fiction is the kind that uses the settings to make comments about our society today, making us think. When Paul Verhoeven gave us RoboCop in 1987, it was a commentary on the rapidly rising role of technology in the world along with the increasing spread of urban crime. The idea that a…
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/kim-stanley-robinson-on-isaac-asimovs-1964-predictions/ Fifty years on, Isaac Asimov’s 1964 World’s Fair predictions reveal a lot about him, writes Kim Stanley Robinson.
Comics, gaming, genre television and movies. Wil Wheaton is covering out all in his new SyFy series, THE WIL WHEATON PROJECT. Wil talks about how it all for started and how he plans on keeping it fresh every week. Plus Marvel loses a show runner but we get our DAREDEVIL. http://serve.castfire.com/audio/2206832/comicmix_2014-05-30-134132.64.mp3 THE POINT covers it…
http://io9.com/the-7-most-common-misconceptions-about-science-fiction-1189361443 Science fiction book publishers sail the multiverse like a fleet of unstoppable hyper-cruisers. And many of us dream of being beamed up to one of these motherships. But at the same time, a lot of people don’t understand how the system works. Here are the seven most common mistaken ideas about science fiction book…
Do you ever think about infinity? I do, and it makes me dizzy. I don’t just mean infinity in terms of numbers, although I do mean that. I mean infinity in terms of space. When I think about space not ending but going on and on and on and on indefinitely, it makes my stomach…
I’m always rooting for good dystopian science fiction so it’s hard for me to report that Transcendence does such a bad job, not so much at building a world or introducing key concepts, rather, it fails at telling a story. Characters swing factional and ideological allegiances rapidly with seemingly no regard to the events going…
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.585373 Karl Sidon, who is also professional playwright and screenwriter, wanted to separate his work from his new career. It’s not like there’s no precedent for this happening… the late great David Honigsberg was a science fiction author who was also a rabbi. And played country music, which I don’t think Sidon does.
Almost two decades ago, actress Jeri Ryan was a science fiction icon on STAR TREK:VOYAGER. Now she has returned to the genre with a new story arc on HELIX. Why did she leave SF TV, and what brought her back? We talk about her new role and where it’s headed on the intense SyFy drama….
Premiering next Monday (February 17th) on the CW, STAR CROSSED mixes a bit of X-Men with Romeo and Juliet into a new sci-fi/romance series. We talk to Aimee Teagarden, Matt Lanter and creator, Meredith Averill, on just what the series will be. Plus Batman leads the sales list in what turns out to be a…
Closing them on my desktop so you can open them on yours. Here we go: Trading on Charlie Brown’s good name: What a cheap ripoff. I Am So Very Tired: I am tired, not of arguing in favour of equality, diversity and tolerance, but of having to explain, over and over and over again, why…
The natives of the planet Clabdabalum use a language which is, at its purest, non-verbal – in fact, non-communicative. However, over the millennia, it has been corrupted by verbal elements. (In Clabdabalum version of the Genesis myth, Adam and Eve are tempted by a grammar text.) This pidgin lingo lacks every part of speech that…
Closing windows on our desktops so you can you open them on yours. Here we go… Chernin Group Takes Majority Stake in Anime Website Crunchyroll | Variety Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana according to 1995: No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and…
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