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If you've got kids and are wondering which science fiction books to start them off with, IO9 ran a list not too long ago of titles that will capture their attention. It's an interesting selection and the additional comments from readers adds even more titles to choose from.
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I don't have any statistics to back me up, but I have a feeling that comic book companies make a lot more money licensing their characters for movies than they do with comic books. That doesn't mean that comic books are dead, but they are certainly a niche medium, at least in North ...
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Thirty-five years ago, astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake used the Arecibo radio telescope to send a coded message to the stars in the hopes that an alien civilization would intercept it. We never did get an answer, but to commemorate the event, someone decided it was time to send a new ...
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theendoftheuniverse.ca - 2 days ago
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With the successful reboots of Battlestar Galactica, Star
Trek, V and, to a lesser extent, The Prisoner,...
you can safely assume that you will see an entire slate of familiar sci-fi shows being remade for a new generation. Cinemetical ponders seven ...
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Which science fiction shows should be rebooted next?
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The Guardian Books blog posits an interesting question: name the greatest science fiction title. No, not the greatest book or story, but the greatest title. The name of the work that is printed on the cover. It suggests some good names, such as Harlan Ellison's I Have No Voice, and I Must ...
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Michael Moorcock will be writing a Doctor Who novel? I sure didn't see that coming.
At first glance, he seems like the most unlikely writer to pen a media tie-in novel, but if you think about his Eternal Champion heroes and how they exist as many individuals across many universes, it sort ...
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Doctor Who
Michael Moorcock
I can't say I've watched too many Star Wars fan films. The quality of each varies, but they are usually too amateurish to engage me for more than a few minutes. Reign of the Fallen is different. Here's the backstory behind the making of the film and here's the film:
In ...
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I've argued before that Tom Clancy-style technothrillers should be considered as a science-fiction sub-genre, but never have I seen someone else elucidate the idea as well as this.
The reasoning for including them in the SF label is that they are generally set in a plausible near future or ...
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So what happens when a well-respected travel writer books passage on a Star Trek-themed cruise? He actually writes a decent report that doesn't trot out the usal Trekkie clichés that you read in mainstream news reports about fandom.
I wonder if anyone on the cruise told him about their ...
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When I was a kid, I was never interested in superhero comic books. That's true today. Instead, I had a thing for war comic books, especially Sgt. Rock.
For years, a Sgt. Rock movie has been in development hell and a platoon of directors and actors have had their names attached to the ...
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There's more news about Duncan Jones' next science fiction film. It's called Source Code and will star Jake Gylenhall.
He'll play a soldier who who wakes up in someone else's body and be forced to relive a train bombing until he can figure out who is responsible for the ...
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Hal Duncan
Martha Jones
Moon
The apocalyptic disaster movie 2012 opens this week. Enough preview screening have happened that there is a fair body of critical writing about the film. It seems to be one of those films that you love or hate. Critics compiled at Rotten Tomatoes seem to be divided, with half giving it a thumbs ...
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theendoftheuniverse.ca - 16 days ago
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There are plenty of English-language science fiction books
out there that I don't have to go looking...
for foreign SF titles, but I am always interested to see how other cultures handle a genre which owes a lot to the writers of the U.S. and the ...
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Aliens don't only speak English
There has been some Oscar buzz this year for Sam Rockwell's role in Moon, but while he could get nominated, I doubt he'd win. Science fiction movies never seem to win anything other than the technical awards. Do you think a sci-fi film could ever win the top Oscar as the year's ...
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Moon
John Scalzi
theendoftheuniverse.ca - 20 days ago
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A week too late for Halloween comes The
Fourth Kind, a science fiction-horror movie which is getting...
terrible reviews. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, it garners a 17% positive rating while on Metacritic it's a bit more respectable at 34, but still not ...
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Let's hope The Fourth Kind is the last of its kind
theendoftheuniverse.ca - 21 days ago
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Science fiction author Richard Morgan is working with
Electronic Arts to write three video games. If they...
are half as good as his book Altered Carbon, then they'll be fantastic. Having science fiction writers work on video games is nothing new, ...
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Writer Richard Morgan scripting three video games for EA
Gattaca is one of my favourite science fiction movies, so I found the rumour that it might be the basis of a new television series an interesting one.
You'll recall the movie dealt with the subject of eugenics and how future advances in genetic techology could lead to a society where the ...
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David Tennant
theendoftheuniverse.ca - 22 days ago
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Are you tired of genre books not being
properly placed in the science fiction and fantasy sections...
of bookstores? Join the revolution on November 18 by taking part in International Science Fiction Reshelving Day. On that day, participants will be ...
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Join the revolution on International Science Fiction ...
The V remake premieres tomorrow. Critics have been given an advance look at it in order for them to write reviews that will drum up interest in the show.
I've read some of them and opinion is mixed. Many say that it is an exciting remake of the show and an improvement on the campy original. ...
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Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
I am a great fan of the Flight of the Conchords show so I was eagerly anticipating the film Gentleman Broncos which stars Conchords star Jemaine Clement. While not exactly a science fiction film, he plays the main character who is an obnoxious science fiction writer.
Unfortunately, the reviews ...
