Tag Archive | "science fiction"

Lauren Beukes wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Lauren Beukes scooped the most prestigious science fiction literary award in the UK last night, winning this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for Zoo City, published by Angry Robot. I’ve not read it yet, but you have to love a book described as “Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler”, so one to add to the [...]

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All of Doctor Who in 6 minutes

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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The Fine Bros do a breathless potted history of the entire four decade plus history of Doctor Who right from Bill Hartnell’s day to the present in only six minutes!

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“A tear, Sarah Jane?”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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“A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don’t cry. While there’s life, there’s…” The last words the late, great Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor spoke to Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith before regenerating. I think a lot of Doctor Who fans of a certain age will recall that scene and understand the sad relevance of it tonight: it’s [...]

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Rise of Planet of the Apes trailer

Friday, April 15, 2011

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A short trailer for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie has appeared online; doesn’t show a huge amount, but certainly does look more promising than the frankly awful Tim Burton ‘re-imgagining’ of the original Planet of the Apes a few years back:

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Another Thursday rolls around and Alex Fitch pauses in his breathless pursuit of the Easter Bunny to bring us up to date with his latest comics & SF related shows. As always check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Spring conventions, tonight at 5pm on [...]

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Gollancz is 50

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the UK’s most famous major science fiction publishers, Victor Gollancz, which has published some truly brilliant work by some fantastic writers as diverse as Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Pierre Pevel, Ian McDonald, Ben Aaronovitch, John Bruner, Sheri S Tepper, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Moorcock, Robert Holdstock, Joe [...]

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Blade Runner updated

Monday, April 11, 2011

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The Blade Runner scene where Deckard uses his home TV/computer system to analyse a replicant’s photograph, updated for the modern computer age (via Live For Film):

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“It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.”

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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It can only be the Millennium Falcon – maybe not as powerful as the USS Enterprise, as unusual looking as a White Star or as dimensionally amazing as a TARDIS, but for my money it is still one of the all-time coolest spacecraft designs in science fiction. Unrealitymag has the blueprints, check them out (link [...]

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Torchwood teaser

Monday, April 4, 2011

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There’s a trailer up from Starz, the BBC’s partner for the next Torchwood series, although sadly it is just a very brief teaser trailer that doesn’t show any actual footage from the show, although there is this piece outlining a little of the idea behind the first episode (via Geek Native): “One day, nobody dies. [...]

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New Doctor Who trailer

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Okay, what more do we need to say? We want to see this! All of it! The Doctor! Amy! River Song! nasty surprises! We want it all and I think we’re going to get it. Soon. (tip of the hat to Jamie Smart for spotting the link when he really should have been working)

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Alternative world Opus

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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This appeals to my inner comics and my inner SciFi geek so much – in the excellent SF series Fringe (currently one of my favourite shows) there is a second, parallel Earth, similar to our world but a little different. Slightly different versions of the characters we know, differences like the World Trade Centre towers [...]

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Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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(detail from cover to Star Trek : Burden of Knowledge, art by  Joe Corroney, published IDW) Can it really be true? Can the mighty Shatner really be celebrating the anniversary of 80 of our Earth years this very day? Yes, folks, the man who is Captain James T Kirk (sorry, Chris Pine, loved you in [...]

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Doctor Who credits reworked Buffy style

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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The Doctor Who opening credits get a makeover, reworked into a similar style to the opening credits for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Genius! Someone put a decent bit of effort into it, it does have the fast edit feel of the Buffy approach. I wonder, if they did it for the end credits too, would [...]

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History of Science Fiction mindmap

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This amazing image isn’t some weird Elder God or hitherto unknown to science creature of the deepest marine abyss – it is a mindmap history of science fiction and it is an astonishing thing to dive into, ranging across myth and philosophy, from ancient written works like Gilgamesh (humanity’s oldest surviving written tale) to more [...]

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Don’t Panic!!!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Now these are pretty nifty – tattoos of a bowl of petunias with “oh no, not again” and a whale with “I wonder if it will be friends with me” emblazoned on someone’s arms. Some of you may be bemused by these and have no idea what we are talking about; this means you are [...]

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