Tag Archive | "science fiction"

Science Fiction: Expo

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Expo, directed by Joe Sill, is a real find, a beautifully composed and shot short science fiction film of a working mother, toiling on a dangerous Lunar base when she receives the worst news any parent can ever hear, that her ill child has succumbed to the inevitable. The loss is magnified by her huge [...]

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The ghost of events past…

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Here’s a little blast from the past – the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International crew were looking at some old photographs from events and signings with comics and sci-fi folks from previous years, mostly older events and on actual print photographs and some even on old Polaroids (younger readers, that was a form of instant print [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake: Ray Harryhausen special

Friday, May 10, 2013

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I’m shamelessly borrowing Richard’s regular Art For Art’s Sake column (which appears each weekend) for a special one-off themed around artwork pertaining to the great effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, who we lost this week. Ray’s magical effects, bringing inanimate objects into glorious moving life, from dinosaurs to wondrous creatures from ancient mythology, delighted so many [...]

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Books: The Clarke Award, a report by our wandering man of letters, James Bacon

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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In the middle of last week the most prestigious awards ceremony celebrating one of our hugely rich strands of literary heritage, British science fiction, took place, mixing discussion of real science, speculation by scientists of The Shape of Things To Come and the crossover between fiction and real science, as well as the awards themselves. [...]

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Books: Chris Beckett wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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Last night in the historic environs of the Royal Society in London the annual Arthur C Clarke Awards, the most prestigious of the UK’s literary science fiction awards, were held. Against stiff competition which included some of the real heavyweights of the genre such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod, the judges decided to [...]

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Cool model TARDIS

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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I am liking these pics Jason Onion posted up of a nicely detailed model TARDIS which opens up to show the console room – with use of mirrors to help give that larger on the inside look. Jason has a couple of different models showing different consoles and time rotors from the 60s and the [...]

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Film: Hybrids

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Here’s a very well done short science fiction film from Patrick Kalyn and his team – Hybrids slips between scenes of domestic contentment (a mother in a summer dress with her beautiful wee girl in a lovely garden) and a more hard-edged woman (we realise they are the same, tempered by experience) hunting aliens who [...]

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Animation: Shelved

Friday, April 12, 2013

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Here’s a brilliant and funny short animated film from Auckland’s Media Design School and directed by James Cunningham; Shelved follows a couple of work-a-day robots on a low-end job, one trudging through the monotony of his warehouse work, his friend insufferably upbeat and determined to impress the higher-ups so he gets promoted. The animation, movement [...]

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Film: the Elaborate End of Robert Ebb

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

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Now this was a real online find – a short (and award winning) film by Clement Bolla, FX Goby and Matthieu Landour, The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb is a brilliantly funny homage to the great creature features of 1950s sci-fi, in a nicely stylised setting that has a sort of 50s/60s feeling to it [...]

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Books: the Arthur C Clarke Award nominees

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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The final six shortlisted nominees for the UK’s most prestigious science fiction literature award, the Arthur C Clarke Awards, have been announced: Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose) Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann) The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Headline) Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) 2312 by Kim Stanley [...]

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