When science fiction is at its best it has heart. Movies as diverse as Alien and Bladerunner share this quality, as do the best of the best from blockbusters to indie art-house features. This is the case with Robot Stories, a compilation of four short films with a unifying dual theme: robots and souls.
This week’s SFSN Face book Poll. We are in love with Boston Comic Con. Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham. Once More With Feeling, the most musical episode of Buffy turns 10. Godzilla. again. Marvel’s ALIAS coming to TV. SyFy will begin airing Lost Girl in January. Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner sequel is starting up and he discusses [...]
This Week’s SFSN Facebook Poll: Our fans’ favorite character to come back from the dead is Buffy Summers. RIP – Richard Gordon, creator of Fiend Without A Face and Dragstrip Girl. Kate Beckinsale is 3D in Underworld Awakening. Networks see Grimm and Once Upon A Time as the same? Women have their pick of guys [...]
Tonight’s TalkCast is dedicated to the memory of Armitage Tambascia, daughter of Alex and Joy Tambascia, who were guests on the ‘Cast. We’ll miss you Steve Jobs, a man who made science fiction into science fact This week’s SFSN Facebook poll results. Fringe holds its audience, Terra Nova, not so much. DC grabs market share [...]
Torchwood – Miracle Day, Eliza Dushku in a Torchwood spinoff? Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who Episode. Futurama gender benders in the new season. ABC goes “figuratively” dark. Thor X-Men Movie Author Stephanie Wright talks about, and reads a short section of her new book, The Vampire’s Warden, the introductory book of her Undead in Brown County [...]
Is Doctor Who getting “too scary”? NBC Passes on Wonder Woman, yet again but renews Chuck. ABC shuts down V and No Ordinary Family. Iron Sky – MOON NAZI’S movie ready for release. Neil Gaiman does Doctor Who. Arnold gets a divorce, we get Terminator 5 & 6. True Blood gets its first teaser for [...]
Still time to vote for Illustrator X at Talenthouse. Zombies on Glee. Thriller/Heads Will Roll Mashup. Bar Karma – What if Spider Robinson did TV? Tom Cruse lobbies for Mountains of Madness Nathan Fillion as the voice of Green Lantern, what will Ryan Reynolds do? Watson will kick Human Butt on Jeopardy. Was is “Series [...]
Doctor Who Christmas special trailer, guest starring Michael (Dumbledore) Gambon Matt Smith on Craig Ferguson this past week Fringe moved to Friday 9pm death slot Harry Potter Movie…the same as the book. Read you damned kids. Epic Score for the Hobbit Red Riding Hood Dark Shadows gets a green light for April 2012 Serenity Q & [...]
In 1942 Bob Heinlein wrote a novella called Waldo, not as in “where the hell is he”, but more along the lines of a mechanical genius exiled from humanity. The protagonist, Waldo Farnsworth-Jones suffers from Myasthenia Gravis (MG) and becomes the penultimate inventor devising mechanical devices to overcome the shortcomings of his ravaged body. His [...]
The first issue of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant hit the stores this week like a psychic invasion. Reading more like a copy of Heavy Metal than the latest release from Marvel Comics (which it is), Electric Ant hits all the right notes in introducing the reader to the mind of Philip K. Dick. What [...]
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