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SF Tidbits for 3/6/09
SF Signal —
... Over at City Journal, Benjamin A. Plotinsky tells us How Science Fiction Found Religion: "In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens." ...
RevolutionSF Newsblast : Heroes, Resident Evil, K9, Time Traveler's Wife (News)
RevolutionSF —
... in a city square for a contest. But some players kept the parts, leading the game makers to say, "Please return them, or dispose of them in a responsible and careful manner." The organ bootleggers they try to sell those to are going to be furious. Like my grandpa always used to say, "Don't anger the organleggers." You Got Your Religion In My Sci-Fi Movies Some poor guy wrote about religion in sci-fi movies . He discussed Star Wars Episode 1 , so I bet he had to watch it. Sad.
How Science Fiction Found Religion
Battlestar Galactica Fan Community —
"Once overtly political, the genre increasingly employs Christian allegory." From City Journal. Compares many sci-fi movies and TV shows with the times they were made to what the film or show focussed on. The whole article is quite interesting but I've only put the BSG part inder the cut for possible spoilers. Then there’s Battlestar Galactica. The corny 1978 original mercifully died after a single season. Five years ago, however, the franchise was reborn—first as a three-hour miniseries, then as a weekly show—in a compelling new form. As in the ...
galacticanews @ 2009-04-02T19:43:00
Battlestar Galactica News —
Interview with Aaron Douglas and Kandyse McClure at the Juno Awards Obama depressed, distant since Battlestar finale City Journal on how science fiction found religion David Eick on how love is really all we need The New Yorker reviews the UN panel Alan Sepinwall lists his favorite episodes of the series Blogcritics calls Daybreak one of the 10 best series finales Newsarama picks the top 5 episodes Mark Verheiden speculates about publishing the scripts one day Galactica Sitrep has a ...
April 6, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... Pharaoh Francis on The Insanity of a Writer (one of them anyway). Alma Alexander on The First Time. Nnedi Okorafor on My report on the Octavia Butler Symposium/My first trip to New York. Janet Reid on #agent fail at Bookends--glad I had my brolly up! and Last word on #agentfail (I think!). PJ Nunn on What's a Publicist Worth? Benjamin A. Plotinsky on How Science Fiction Found Religion. Editorial Anonymous on Self-Publishing ...
