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Planet 51 has an intriguing premise, promising advance clips, and acid-piddling dog straight out of Alien. But none of that can save a rambling movie that's never quite sure where it's going. Planet 51's tragedy is that it could have been a decent movie. It starts off with a neat premise: on a distant planet, there is an al (Read More)
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Genre publishing has taken some hard hits in recent years — but a slew of independent publishers is still out there, charting the unknown regions of book publishing and keeping your reading lists weird. Here are our favorites indy presses. Tachyon Books This publisher, specializing in short fiction, has been around for clos (Read More)
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Toshiba UKClick for video: An armchair floats to the edge of space in Toshiba's "Space Chair Project" commercial. Click on the image to see Toshiba's video on YouTube.Space ballooning hits new heights in an HDTV commercial showing a simple armchair floating against the backdrop of our curving planet, almost 100,000 feet abo (Read More)
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Time travel as a scientific concept has been with us at least since the 19th century publication of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine. But is it a real possibility? And how plausible are fictional portrayals of it? Kurt Andersen, host of the radio show Studio 360, interviewed science writer Dave Goldberg and science fiction wri (Read More)
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A pirate ship slices through space in concept art from the lost Dune movie of the 1970s. Artist Chris Foss crafted covers for some of science fiction's greatest books, reshaping how we see spaceships and robots. Check out our gallery. Artist Chris Foss is known for his visionary presentation of future technology and weird v (Read More)
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When space adventure Planet 51 resorts to silly bathroom humor 15 minutes after the opening credits, we know we're in for a sorry ...
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They swagger, they fight, they laugh in the face of danger. Science-fiction books have given us some of the greatest swashbuckling heroes, cutting a swathe through space and countless alternate timelines. Here are some of our favorite book heroes. When we asked our friends to name their favorite swashbuckling heroes from SF (Read More)
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tor.com:
In my last post I offered my recommendations of young adult fantasy novels; now I’d like to share some YA science fiction recs. I think you’ll find there’s something that’ll appeal to just about everyone!If you like psychological SF, like Passage and Flowers for Algernon, try:House of Stairs and Singularity by William Slea (Read More)
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Ray Bradbury has some simple advice to those of you who are struggling to get your science fiction published: Don't ever quit working. Bradbury's following his own advice: He's developing a TV miniseries, a movie... and a new musical? There's something awe-inspiring about Bradbury recounting how he used to crank out a sho (Read More)
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Even if Khan turns up in the next Trek, he may be different than you're expecting. Also, there are arresting Avatar/Daybreakers posters.V's new showrunner explains how the show will change. Plus: Lost, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Fringe, Supernatural and Smallville spoilers. Star Trek: By all accounts, there's still no script f (Read More)
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The tracklist for composer James Horner's Avatar soundtrack is out, and with it come a hefty amount of spoilers. So we tried to string together the plot based on track titles, including examples of what it may all look like. The only soundtrack we ever enjoyed that basically spelled out the entire plot was Danny Elfman's Ba (Read More)
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In Jeremy Geddes' photorealistic paintings, cosmonauts float weightlessly around the Earth, silently inspecting decrepit buildings, light fixtures, and flocks of pigeons. Are they aliens from another world? Or humans who returned to find the world different than they left it? There's a distinctly narrative quality to Geddes (Read More)
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Blog Guy, is it true that New York City has been invaded by Amazonian Queens from another planet?Yes. We have photos of them. It appears they have never seen Earthlings before.How tall are they?About nine feet, wearing 10-inch stilettos.Gosh, what’s your take on them?I’m afraid. Very afraid. Sure, judging from the photos th (Read More)
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tor.com:
Man, does my heart beat for sci-fi. It’s a pity the genre rarely gets its deserved due in the mainstream. I can cite a dozen SF novels released this year that beat the pants off The Lost Symbol and other New York Times bestsellers in both content and craft…and yet, so many sci-fi and fantasy writers, myself included, scrap (Read More)
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You've got a list of books to read today, but what will you be yearning to read next year? We've picked out 20 scifi and contemporary fantasy books coming out next year that have us filled with excitement. Many publishers haven't firmed up their winter releases for next year, so most of these books are coming in spring and (Read More)
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