Tag Archive | "science fiction"

River Song and the Doctor timelines

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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(Matt Smith’s Doctor with Alex Kingston’s so stylish River Song, screen grab borrowed from the fine Mind Robber’s site and (c) BBC) This chart shows the events timelines for River Song and the Doctor (warning, potential spoilers for anyone who hasn’t seen up to the weekend’s storming mid-season Doctor Who finale), although of course it [...]

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James reports from the MCM Expo at Excel London

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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James Bacon had the pleasure of diving into the geek pleasure garden that is the London MCM expo, a haven for comics, gaming and science fiction fans, over the bank holiday weekend and he’s very kindly sent us a report and pics from the gig: It’s a grey Friday afternoon. The May bank holiday doesn’t feel [...]

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Science Fiction TV talks Thor, BPRD and Fringe

Friday, May 27, 2011

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The latest videocast of Science Fiction TV covers Thor, the BPRD, Top Cow’s Artifacts 7, the finale of season 3 of Fringe and features Stargate Universe’s Alaina Huffman as a guest: Science Fiction TV 05.13 + Thor Art from Greg Horn from Science Fiction on Vimeo.

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Out of this World exhibit at the British Library

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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As we’ve mentioned here a couple of times recently, the British Library in London has just started an enticing exhibition entitled Out of this World: Science Fiction, But Not as You Know it. James Bacon was fortunate enough to get along the sample the BL’s science fictional offerings and I’m delighted to say he was [...]

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Flick through the Steampunk Bible

Monday, May 23, 2011

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(cover to Steampunk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer and SJ Parker, published Abams Chronicle Books) Mattormeg has uploaded a flick through the brand new Steampunk Bible from a good chum of mine, top fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer and S.J. Parker: It has a potted history of the genre, chapters on comics (including entries featuring Bryan Talbot [...]

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30 Years of Robert Rankin – Japanese Devil Fish Girl and other unnatural attractions

Friday, May 20, 2011

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2011 sees acclaimed brit author Robert Rankin in print some thirty years. We have here the first of a number of reviews and articles to celebrate this anniversary, this one looking Rankin’s most recent book, where James Bacon takes time to consider the metaphorical elements to this humorist’s recent work while looking at the place [...]

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If Ikea did Sci-Fi…

Friday, May 13, 2011

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Now this made me giggle – Gizmodo has a post up, what if Ikea made their self-assembly instructions for science fiction devices? Your own Ikea flat-pack TARDIS? Heh. I wonder how the Ikea style graphical instructions would tell you how to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow? And you just know that after assembly [...]

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Alan Moore at the British Library

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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(cover art to upcoming second part of LOEG: Century by and (c) Alan Moore and Kev O’Neill, published Knockabout/Top Shelf) James Bacon alerts us to the fact that our great, bearded magus of Albion, Alan Moore, will be giving a talk at no less august a literary institution than the British Library (British Library and [...]

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Neil Gaiman talks his Doctor Who episode

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Neil Gaiman talks, in a spoiler free way, about the episode of Doctor Who he wrote, which will be going out in the UK this very Saturday (via Digital Spy):

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May the 4th be with you!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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(The Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship to ever make the Kessel Run, here illustrated by the one and only Cam Kennedy for Star Wars: Dark Empire) Yes, it is May the 4th and that means Sith and Jedi and even non-believers who’d rather have a good blaster at their side than rely on a hokey [...]

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Gweek!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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Meet Gweek, a new podcast from one of my favourite regular reads online, BoingBoing, covering computer gaming, science fiction books and comics; go listen!

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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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