Tag Archive | "science fiction"

Blast from the past – the 1979 Hugo awards

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan posts this fragment from an old BBC documentary Time out of Mind with footage from the 1979 Hugo Awards, given out at the ‘79 World Science Fiction Convention, which that year was held in Brighton. Ah, the 70s, when 70s fashions were just fashion (albeit often dreadful!) and not retro-fashion for self conscious [...]

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The king is dead, long live the king

Saturday, January 2, 2010

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And so after all the anticipation it is finally hail and farewell to David Tennant’s brilliant run on Doctor Who (did you have a little tremor in your voice, did you find yourself blinking back any possible tears at that “I don’t want to go” line?). Regeneration -- that wonderful device the world’s longest running [...]

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Liyi Brunner: My Story

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Cheryl Morgan points us towards a current project running on the BBC site called My Story, where people around the UK are being encouraged to submit short, autobiographical pieces. It turns out one of those is from Liyi Brunner, widow of the late John Brunner, one of the most respected authors in our science fiction [...]

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Mythbusters to test Star Trek’s ‘Gorn cannon’

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Wow, two of my very favourite geek things are coming together: Star Trek and the brilliant Mythbusters (pauses to don his hat and stroke beard in Adam Savage pose). SciFi Wire notes that the geek-tastic Mythbusters is going to test an invention from a classic Star Trek episode, where a desperate Kirk is in the [...]

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Dan O’Bannon 1946-2009

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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(Dan O’Bannon picture from an excellent Den Of Geek interview from Dec 2007) News in yesterday that Dan O’Bannon, sci-fi and horror screenwriter, died aged 63, after a short illness. A genuine pioneer in science fiction filmaking, O’Bannon’s film writing is plentiful, but most sci-fi fans will know him as the co-writer of Alien, a film [...]

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Lavie Tidhar’s Funny Pages

Friday, December 18, 2009

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One of the short stories I’ve been enjoying in the current issue of the always-excellent Interzone (issue #225, in stores now) is from Lavie Tidhar, Funny Pages, a fab short tale set in Israel with a group of superheroes fighting endlessly with their foes. Considering the brief span of the story Lavie conjures up a [...]

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Being Human Series Two

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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The BBC’s adding some material to tantalise us ahead of the much-anticipated second series of the excellent Being Human, including this Ivan and Daisy segment and other prequel sequences: And some behind the scenes access too

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Candian SF writer Peter Watts detained and beaten at US border

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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There’s a growing storm out outrage gathering rapidly around the science fiction community online at news from respected Canadian author Doctor Peter Watts. Crossing over from Canada’s southern neighbour last week Peter was apparently detained then assaulted by US border security before being thrown into jail. On Boing Boing fellow Cannuck and SF writer Cory [...]

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Happy birthday science fiction fandom!

Friday, December 11, 2009

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On BoingBoing Cory notes that today, the 11th of December, marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of something very close to my heart and cyber-implants, science fiction fandom. “80 years ago today, the first ever science fiction fan group, the Scienceers, met for the first time at organization president Warren Fitzgerald’s apartment in Harlem [...]

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Star Trek the Motion Picture anniversary

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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As Star Trek the Motion Picture marks the 30th anniversary of its release here’s a classic behind the scenes featurette from 1979 -- the quality isn’t great and the soundtrack is distinctly wobbly, but its still great fun to watch, with behind the scenes footage of the actors, the special effects (oh, that huge, 8 [...]

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Doctor Who – the End of Time

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Ah, Doctor Who and Bernard Cribbins for Christmas Day… Soon… Soon it won’t be just teasing little clips, it’ll be the whole episode being unwrapped under the tree… (via Podshock’s Twitter)

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Iain Banks at Edinburgh’s Central Library

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Top science fiction author Iain M Banks will be taking part in the Edinburgh City Reads programme run by the good folks at Edinburgh’s libraries. Iain will be in conversation with writer and journalist Alan Taylor in Central Library on George IV Bridge (the bridge that runs parallel to our Edinburgh store, directly opposite the [...]

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Slingers – new Brit SF

Monday, December 7, 2009

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From Mike Sizemore comes this reel for a proposed new British science fiction show, Slingers, with Sean Pertwee (no stranger to the fantastic genres, of course), Margot Stilley, Haruka Abe, Adrian Bower and others. I don’t really know much about it at the moment apart from the fact it seems to be a show reel [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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As another Thursday comes around, peeking out from behind blankets of sodden, gray clouds, here’s Alex Fitch to bring a good reason to stay in and, when we’re sitting comfortable he’ll begin. As ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site. Alex is still available to perform [...]

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Buck Rogers trailer

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Now doesn’t this look fun? A teaser trailer for an online version of pulp science fiction/comics classic Buck Rogers which is due to appear on the web sometime in 2010. I’ve no other information on it yet (although the Buck Rogers Wiki page states that a company called Phase II were planning an online fan [...]

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