Tag Archive | "science fiction"

Pingu’s The Thing

Friday, January 6, 2012

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This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

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Haven & Warehouse 13 at MCM

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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The MCM folks have video up from the panel with Aaron Ashmore and Lucas Bryant from the SyFy Channel’s series Warehouse 13 and Haven (which I have to admit I thought started a little slow but both drew me in, now I’m hooked):

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Doctor Who Timeline

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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The TARDIS Newsroom blog has spotted this fab, easy to read graphical timeline for the decades of Doctor Who – really nice, simple, clear layout, pretty cool little resource that someone (anyone know who it was?) has put some thought into (tip of the hat to Peacock Pete for the link):

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A Whovian’s jolly Christmas

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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Loving this Doctor Who Magazine jolly Christmas cover they posted on their Facebook page. As one commenter said on FB it’s very reminiscent of an old Radio Times Christmas issue cover (with all the warm nostalgia that brings to mind, appropriate for the season). It’s especially nice to see the Milky Bar Kid included on [...]

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Adam Roberts on science fiction classics

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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Adam Roberts, one of our most original and intelligent science fiction writers (and noted Twitter punster) talks to The Browser’s FiveBooks Interviews about five classic works of science fiction he’s chosen for the interview. As well as being an exceptionally fine writer himself Adam is always worth reading when discussing literature, go and have a [...]

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Happy birthday, Doctor Who!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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November 23rd and that means happy birthday to the world’s longest-running science fiction show. Join me for a quick Vworp! I think we need some Doctor Who art to celebrate the day – how about some classic Doctor Who comic work from the brilliant Mick McMahon, who recently posted up all of his Junkyard Demon [...]

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Anne McCaffrey, RIP

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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(Anne McCaffrey, pic borrowed from Suvudu) The Twitterverse this evening started passing around news that Anne McCaffrey, one of the great writers of science fiction and fantasy, had passed away. I couldn’t find any confirmation online until just a few moments ago – James Long directed me to Tor and I see noted SF publisher [...]

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Visions from behind the sofa: a Doctor Who Symposium

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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The University of Hertfordshire is hosting a syposium on Doctor Who later this month – appropriately enough on November 23rd, the show’s anniversary. Visions From Behind the Sofa will feature a mix of people who have been involved on both sides of the camera on the world’s longest running science fiction show, as well as [...]

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Director’s Commentary: The Weird

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Following yesterday’s cracking comics intro to The Weird by Leah Thomas (see here), today we have a slightly different Director’s Commentary for you – until now mostly we’ve featured comics creators discussing the making of their new work (although Oli East also treated us to a Commentary on how he created the animation for Elbow’s [...]

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The Weird Comic: The Adventures of Mary and Ed

Monday, October 31, 2011

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My friends, noted authors, editors, reviewers and cheese removers (long story), Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have been working on a stonkingly massive new anthology for Corvus Books, The Weird, a truly enormous collection which takes in an incredibly diverse array of writers, from HP Lovecraft to Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami to Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, [...]

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MCM Comic Con in London this weekend

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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This weekend sees soemthing of a double-header event in London, with the MCM Expo and also the Memorablilia event taking place in the city’s Royal Victoria Dock from the 28th to the 30th of October. There’s the now famous Comic Village, which boasts a good mix of the professional comics folk and the small press, [...]

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Cheryl talks the Encyclopedia of SF

Monday, October 10, 2011

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As many of you will be aware a team of top science fiction folks have been slaving away on a brand new edition of the Encyclopedia of SF – some of us recall the previous print editions from several years ago (and the accompanying Fantasy Encyclopedia), massive tome which also had electronic updates following it [...]

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New SJA

Monday, October 3, 2011

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Neil Roberts reminds us that tonight sees new Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC (at 5.15pm), a bittersweet occasion for many fans, happy to see the show back but sad because we lost the wonderful Liz Sladen only a few months ago. But that sadness aside it’s nice to think we’re still going to see her [...]

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Star Trek verus Star Wars according to Shatner

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Star Wars or Star Trek, which is better and why? It’s an argument that’s surfaced in science fiction fandom many a time over the last few decades (personally I love both and consider them to be quite different types of SF&F so really don’t see much point in arguing over them like this other than [...]

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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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