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Just in case you were searching for some Science Fiction to watch on TV (!), there’s rumours of a TV series based on the truly excellent film Gattaca . Not sure how that would work. They’d have to keep the style. And refrain from gratuitous action sequences. Via Dave .
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The third story from DayBreak Magazine is The Gender Plague by K. D. Wentworth . It's a story of a nano-virus switching peoples gender overnight. It sounds a bit crazy and initially feels like an idea with not much of a story. However the story keeps going and going, taking the idea to it's ...
Books
The Left Hand of Darkness
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin , Orbit have published a new hardback edition. It's one of those lovely sized small hardbacks, that are almost paperback size, handy and yet sturdy. I like them. The cover is nice too, two ...
Books
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
It's felt like a long time since the last episode of Doctor Who. More than eleven months. Was the wait worth it? Yes. I liked The Waters Of Mars a lot. It's a simple story, an alien water virus thingy breaks out and starts spreading amongst the first Mars base, at which The Doctor has just ...
TV
Doctor Who
It’s felt like a long time since the last episode of Doctor Who. More than eleven months. Was the wait worth it? Yes. I liked The Waters Of Mars a lot. It’s a simple story, an alien water virus thingy breaks out and starts spreading amongst the first Mars base, at which The Doctor has just ...
TV
Doctor Who
The first rule of Short Story Club is that you have to talk about Short Story club. Unfortunately for this weeks Torque Control Short Story Club story, A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes, I can find much to say apart from (once again) it’s just not my type of story. I read ...
Gaming
Moon
New Doctor Who episode, where are you? Emptiness. New Doctor Who episode announced! Yay! Hurray! And yay again! Trailer for new Doctor Who episode revealed. Oooh, looks awesome. Trailer for new Doctor Who episode is on heavy rotation on the BBC. Looks even more awesome. David Tennant ...
TV
Doctor Who
David Tennant
Via Niall at TorqueControl comes two interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson: one in The Guardian which I’d seen and one at Shareable which I hadn’t seen. In the Shareable interview KSR talks about utopias and how they are full of opportunities for Science Fiction. He argues that people who ...
Books
Kim Stanley Robinson
Daniel Dae Kim
Yet more online stuff for the remake of The Prisoner, this time an online graphic novel . The style is quite nice, flowing animation between the panels, and sparse animation in the panels. It’s a ten part story, and there’s not much to go on from the first part, it’s a bit short,but ...
TV
The Prisoner
Less than a week to some new Doctor Who. Hurray! The Waters Of Mars looks like the scariest Doctor Who episode ever: zombies spread by water. Or something. Here’s a video of Russell T Davies talking about it (UK Only). There’s more videos and images here . I’m quite excited now.
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Doctor Who
Russell T. Davies
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This weeks Torque Control Short Story Club story
is The Shangri-La Affair by Lavie Tidhar , published
in Strange Horizons. The story is set in near future Asia; Thailand and Laos. There’s war and confusion. The story follows what appears to be a ...
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The Shangri-La Affair by Lavie Tidhar
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Ansible 268, November 2009
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The mischief that was International Science Fiction Reshelving Day has been killed off before it’s first debut. Okay. ISFRD is a bad idea. Hell, it’s a terrible idea. It’s not my first, and I’m sure it won’t be my last. But this one I can do something about. ISFRD is cancelled. Which ...
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The new, re-imagined version of V was shown last night in the US. In the UK it will be shown in the new year, however I saw a preview of the first episode yesterday, courtesy of the UK Sci-Fi Channel . If you’re unaware of the original V then go and read about it . What’s important is that ...
TV
Paradox is a new show to be shown soon on the BBC (no confirmed date yet). Here's the blurb: If you could see the future, would you change it? That's the dilemma facing Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint ( Tamzin Outhwaite ) and astrophysicist Dr Christian King ( Emun Elliott ) in Paradox ...
TV
Flash Forward
Dr. Horrible
Love looks like an interesting SF film. Astronaut trapped aboard the ISS, going crazy. Here’s the trailers on the Apple site . Embedded below is a YouTube version.
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I presume you all read xkcd ? In which case you will have seen the amazingly awesome Movie Narrative Charts . Which is so awesome I had to blog it. The Primer chart especially made me laugh. If you don’t read xkcd….what are you doing?
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ITV4 are now showing Dollhouse season one, starting last Monday and continuing every Monday at 9pm. ITV4 is a free digital TV station, so this is the first time Dollhouse has been shown in the UK on free TV. Straight after Dollhouse, ITV4 are showing Sanctuary , which is now three episodes in. ...
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Dollhouse
Sanctuary
Defying Gravity is now being shown on BBC2 , and after three episodes, I like it. The story is about a round the solar-system trip, following the crew of eight and their back-story. Although there’s clearly more to it than that, something else is going on, something probably alien that ...
TV
Defying Gravity
This weeks Torque Control Short Story Club story is Thieves Of Silence by Holly Phillips , published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Beneath Ceaseless Skies is an online magazine dedicated to publishing the best in literary adventure fantasy, so not at all the sort of story I would usually read. ...
