Tag Archive | "science fiction"

Lauren Beukes and Andy Sawyer interviewed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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There are a couple of fine interviews up with some top bods from the world of science fiction – one of my favourite literary podcasts, The Bat Segundo Show, has an interview with Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and winner of this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award: (Lauren Beukes, phot borrowed from the [...]

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American Reaper

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Pat Mills kindly drops us a line to alert us to a new series he’s kicking off soon with frequent collaborator, the excellent Clint Langley: American Reaper. From Pat’s description: “It’s a  dark science fiction thriller about future cops – known as Reapers – hunting down criminals  who carry out illegal identity transplants.  With the  [...]

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M.I.C.

Monday, August 29, 2011

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M.I.C. is an interesting looking short science fiction film from Casey Pyke, “set in a future where robots are used as weapons of defense and attack, the two soldiers have to come to come to accept each other in the face of bodily disfigurement, revenge and corruption.” Filmed against a green screen the movie has [...]

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Where’s Wall-E?

Friday, August 19, 2011

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How utterly fabulously detailed is this robotic pastiche on the long-running Where’s Wally? (or Where’s Waldo as I belive it is titled in the US) picture books? Just look at the amazing details and the range of science fictional robots on display here, not just the obvious characters you’d think of like R2D2, but some [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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Falling Skies cast at SDCC

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Tiffany Vogt has posted up video of the cast of science fiction show Falling Skies taking questions in the press room at the recent San Diego Comic Con and since the next new episode is on FX tonight in the UK it seems like a good day to point you towards it: “Falling Skies” cast [...]

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Lauren Beukes at the British Library this weekend

Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and winner of this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award will be talking at the British Library as part of their very fine Out of this World science fiction exhibition (reviewed here by James), from 1 to 3.0pm on Saturday 13th, more details here. General pubbery (a vital component [...]

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Eureka gals at SDCC

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Takes on Tech has short video interviews from the recent San Diego Comic Con with two of the female stars from SyFy’s Eureka, Felecia Day: Interview with Felicia Day of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from Takes on Tech on Vimeo. And Salli Richardson-Whitfield: Interview with Salli Richardson-Whitfield of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from [...]

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Get your damned, dirty ape paws off my movie tickets!

Monday, August 1, 2011

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We have a great summer movie giveaway for some of you – as most of you know there is a new take on the classic Apes movies coming soon, this time not a remake as with the lamentable Burton version (such a missed opportunity) but a real reworking of the original idea, Rise of the [...]

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Doctor Who in comics

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Vworp! Vworp! Materialising this very day in London’s Cartoon Museum, Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 – 2011. The history of the world’s longest running science fiction series and comics goes right back through the decades to the William Hartnell era, with comics versions of the wandering Time Lord’s tales being almost as old as the [...]

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SciFi and Horror at the Edinburgh Film Fest

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Just over a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying my annual week off at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, taking in all sorts of cinema, from hard-hitting documentaries from modern combat reporters to stylish French crime thrillers. And of course I took in several science fiction and horror themed flicks along the way, so [...]

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To boldly go…

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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It’s a sad day for many geeks as the final space shuttle mission returns to the Earthbound domain, never again to glide silently miles above our world, over poles and continents, clear skies and storms, never again to surge back into our atmosphere at many times the speed of sound, streaking across the sky, carrying [...]

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Mira Furlan interviewed

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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The wonderful Mira Furlan(best known to SF genre fans for Lost and Babylon 5) is interviewed by Jason Reed in this short video recorded at Wizard World’s Anaheim Comic Con 2011. I’ve admired Mira ever since her 5 year stint in Straczynski’s groundbreaking Babylon 5, where she managed to bring to life a character who [...]

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Strange Adventures – science fiction in comics

Friday, July 8, 2011

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Science Fiction as a genre in comics is nothing new. Many aspects of the superhero genre are in themselves science fictional, but pure SF has had many outings in the pages of comics. (above: cover to JSA Strange Adventures #4, cover art by John Watson, below: cover to Strange Adventures #93 from the 1950s, cover [...]

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Peacemaker

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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One of my favourite contemporary science fiction authors, Australia’s own Marianne de Pierres, tells me that she’s managed to scratch two itches for the price of one, satisfying an urge to dabble in comics (previously as well as her excellent science fictionnovels her work has also inspired gaming and animation) and a very long held [...]

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