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Doctor When

https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/p/doctor-when?utm_source=orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=doctor-when
DOCTOR WHO is gone. STAR TREK has reached the end of its cycle. The STARGATE reboot was cancelled. The new STAR WARS film did not do well, and I believe they only have one more film in the pipeline. The MCU is not in a great place and the shape of its future will balance on the two new AVENGERS films. SUPERMAN’s takings were soft and SUPERGIRL is tracking at less than half of SUPERMAN’s opening. And the two biggest films of the last month were made for less than a million each by directors in their twenties. One or two swallows don’t make a summer, but right now it looks like old science fiction inflected IP is reaching a hiatus point.
#doctorwho #media #scifi #startrek #tv
archive.org #38577

Guillermo del Toro reimagines 'Frankenstein' : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein
It has a very Byronian, very doomed, very Wuthering Heights sort of look of a doomed hero. And when he's first born, and is bald and almost naked, I wanted it to feel like an anatomical chart, like something newly minted. ... The head is patterned after phrenology manuals from the 1800s. So they have very elegant, almost aerodynamic lines. I wanted this alabaster or marble, statue feel, so it feels like a newly minted human being. And we also tried to make it the way I remember the Jesus images, life size, in the churches of my childhood.
#deltoro #frankenstein #horror #movies #scifi
archive.org #37934

The Last Backup - 365tomorrows

https://365tomorrows.com/2025/11/01/the-last-backup/
The notification appeared at 3:47 AM: FINAL CONSCIOUSNESS BACKUP COMPLETE. Amara stared at her phone, hands trembling. Tomorrow—today, technically—she will undergo the procedure. Her biological brain, riddled with an inoperable tumor, would be replaced with a neural substrate. The doctors promised it would be seamless. She’d wake up still being Amara, just in a different medium. But which Amara?
#fiction #scifi
archive.org #37908

They Let Me Live

https://blog.bovid.space/they-let-me-live
"The friend-guild shows up for all kinds of people in need. We're visiting nurses. We're aid advocates. We're often first responders. My grandma lost her legs to a mine in the Horrors, and there wasn't enough medicine to keep it from getting a lot worse. I volunteered when I was sixteen so I could be the one appointed to feed her and bathe her, because she found it more dignified when it was family. She spent her last years in pain, but the guy who laid the mine? Who knows if they'll ever think about it? What would it change, if they did? The mine was laid. We can disarm the mines, we can demolish the munitions factories, we can even abolish war itself, but there was no restoring her. We have to live with the damage. We have to live in reality."
#fiction #future #portland #scifi #stories
archive.org #29410

Welcome

https://www.odysseuslarp.com/
​Odysseus was a groundbreaking larp production that was originally run in 2019 and again as remastered version in 2024. Massive team of volunteers transformed an elementary school into a living, breathing space ship and took over 600 players from 30 different countries to an unforgettable journey through the stars.
#larp #odysseus #rpg #scifi
archive.org #29609

The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-changing Sci-fi Larp  – mssv

https://mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-odysseus/
Last year, hundreds of players inhabited a spaceship on the run, scrambling to keep one step ahead of the enemy. The sci-fi larp Odysseus was inspired by Battlestar Galactica’s “33“, but where that episode only lasted 45 minutes, Odysseus’ players worked, fought, ate, and slept in-game for fifty non-stop hours.
#larp #odysseus #rpg #scifi
archive.org #29610

Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
Technology is the active human interface with the material world. ... We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
#leguin #scifi #technology #writing
archive.org #29696

Hopepunk - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk
Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of grimdark. Works in the hopepunk subgenre are about characters fighting for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.
#hope #hopepunk #scifi
archive.org #29801

Humanity, Fuck Yeah!

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/
We're a writing focused subreddit welcoming all media exhibiting the awesome potential of humanity, known as HFY or "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" We welcome sci-fi, fantasy, and all other stories with a focus on humans being awesome!
#reddit #scifi #writing
archive.org #30501

The speech : r/HFY

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1fh6076/the_speech/
It began centuries ago. Due to our physiology and the fact that our world contains a single continent, we never gave priority to developing long range communications. Our mind was one and we knew what all saw and felt. But as we developed and the laws of nature made themselves known to us, we stumbled unto radio signals.
#aliens #flashfiction #scifi
archive.org #30502

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

https://katemacdonald.net/2016/12/08/collaborating-with-anne-mccaffrey-an-interview-with-elizabeth-moon/#comments
I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.
#imported:pinboard #mccaffrey #moon #scifi
archive.org #31164

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

https://katemacdonald.net/2016/12/08/collaborating-with-anne-mccaffrey-an-interview-with-elizabeth-moon#comments
I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.
#mccaffrey #moon #scifi
archive.org #28163

Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism | Autostraddle

https://www.autostraddle.com/every-major-star-trek-character-ranked-by-lesbianism-452811/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The lesbian rankings contained herein are based on highly subjective criteria you will undoubtedly disagree with. It includes opinions from esteemed sources like your pal and mine Sally, who has seen all the Star Treks, as well as Autostraddle writers Al(aina), Kayla, and Senior Editor Carmen, the only three Autostraddle team members who wanted to join my Star Trek Slack Channel.
#imported:pinboard #scifi #startrek
archive.org #31177

Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism | Autostraddle

https://www.autostraddle.com/every-major-star-trek-character-ranked-by-lesbianism-452811/amp?__twitter_impression=true
The lesbian rankings contained herein are based on highly subjective criteria you will undoubtedly disagree with. It includes opinions from esteemed sources like your pal and mine Sally, who has seen all the Star Treks, as well as Autostraddle writers Al(aina), Kayla, and Senior Editor Carmen, the only three Autostraddle team members who wanted to join my Star Trek Slack Channel.
#scifi #startrek
archive.org #28131

Star Wars vs Star Trek Technology: Shields vs Physical Impacts

http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Shields/Impact.html
As you can see, even if it was possible to build a deflector shield generator of virtually infinite strength, the overall effectiveness of the system would still be limited by good old-fashioned structural limits. Ultimately, the survivability of a shielded spacecraft against physical impacts could (and would, given sufficient shield strength) conceivably come down to a set of bolts holding a shield generator onto the ship's spaceframe. This example highlights the severe problem with most attempts to rationalize sci-fi technologies, which is that people tend to look for the strongest link in the chain, not the weakest link in the chain.
#imported:pinboard #physics #scifi #shields
archive.org #24238

Why the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray is going to rip you off

http://io9.com/why-the-star-trek-into-darkness-blu-ray-is-going-to-rip-1222160195
The official Blu-ray has seven mini-featurettes. Seems kind of bare bones for such a major summer release, eh? Indeed it does, because Paramount has divvied up all the other features — including the commentary tracks with the cast and director J.J. Abrams, and several additional featurettes — have been given exclusive to the Target release, the Best Buy release, and the iTunes download. Meaning 1) if you buy the normal version you're getting less than half the special features created for the home video release, and 2) if you want all of them you're going to need to purchase at least three separate versions.
#bluray #imported:pinboard #paramount #scifi #startrek #to:fb
archive.org #24121

The Greatest Science Fiction-Themed Bars and Restaurants on Earth

http://io9.com/the-greatest-science-fiction-themed-bars-and-restaurant-512256764
You may never get to drink at the Cantina — but you can still visit some real-life watering holes that celebrate your favorite stories. We've already shown you science-fictional bars we'd like to visit and people whose homes are based on spaceships, but here are real joints that boast a TARDIS, AT-ATs or the Martian landscape.
#bars #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #23764

What happened to Orson Scott Card? - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_for_orson_scott_card_partner/
What I cannot quite wrap my mind around is how the mind which wrote such a beautiful meditation on empathy can be the same one that argues for the violent overthrow of the American government because of its failure to ban gay marriage and to outlaw homosexuality generally.
#endersgame #homosecuality #imported:pinboard #orsonscottcard #politics #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #32424

Will Continuum Destroy the Sci-Fi Police Procedural? | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/01/will-continuum-destroy-the-sci-fi-police-procedural?et_cid=30139586&et_rid=1476560523&linkid=Continuum+has+premiered
These kinds of ethical and paradoxical questions alone could potentially make Continuum not only a good time travel show, but maybe, just maybe, a sci-fi cop show that intelligently critiques its own existence.
#cops #imported:pinboard #police #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #23113

Iain Banks: My Favourite Game - Edge Magazine

http://www.edge-online.com/features/iain-banks-my-favourite-game
Novelist Iain Banks might be better known as Iain M Banks, the pen name under which most of his speculative fiction is published. Of this oeuvre, his Culture series is most widely celebrated, depicting a utopian, galaxy-spanning civilisation whose citizens (when they aren’t meddling in the affairs of lesser races) have plenty of time for gaming.
#culture #gaming #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #21717

Thalience — KarlSchroeder.com

http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/thalience
Now maybe you can see how science could have a successor: thalience would use objective truth as an artistic medium and merge subjectivity and objectivity in a creative activity whose purpose is the re-sanctification of the natural world. To believe in an uplifting and satisfying vision of your place in the universe, and to know that this vision is true (or as true as anything can be) would be sublime. Thalience would be an activity worthy of post-scientific humanity, or our own biological or post-biological successors.
#ai #cogsci #fiction #imported:pinboard #science #scifi #thalience
archive.org #21656

Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free | Tor.com

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/torforge-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free
“Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.”
#awesome #copyfight #drm #ebooks #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb #tor
archive.org #21495

Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

http://io9.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-universe-of-our-generation
Mass Effect is epic. It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It's one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional universes in ways that you may not have yet realized. It is cosmic in scope and scale.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #masseffect #scifi
archive.org #21139

The fake chemical compound Isaac Asimov invented to punk science writers

http://io9.com/5887014/the-fake-chemical-compound-isaac-asimov-invented-to-punk-science-writers
the only way for the compound to be more soluble than it already was would be if it dissolved before it came in contact with the water. He decided this would be a good basis for another short story, and then realized this represented the perfect way to deal with his concerns about scientific writing
#azimov #chemistry #imported:pinboard #science #scifi #thiotimoline #writing
archive.org #20981

The “Official” Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape | Ernie's Blog

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2011/09/21/the-official-ready-player-one-soundtrack/
Many people have been clamoring for me to post an “official” Ready Player One soundtrack. I hate to be the cause of any sort of clamoring, so I compiled this list of nearly every song mentioned or referenced in the book, in roughly the order they appear. If you haven’t finished reading the book yet, here there be spoilers.
#imported:pinboard #music #nifty #playlist #readyplayerone #scifi
archive.org #33179

The “Official” Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape | Ernie's Blog

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2011/09/21/the-official-ready-player-one-soundtrack
Many people have been clamoring for me to post an “official” Ready Player One soundtrack. I hate to be the cause of any sort of clamoring, so I compiled this list of nearly every song mentioned or referenced in the book, in roughly the order they appear. If you haven’t finished reading the book yet, here there be spoilers.
#music #nifty #playlist #readyplayerone #scifi
archive.org #20888

Kevin J. Anderson will novelize Rush's new album

http://io9.com/5884531/kevin-j-anderson-will-novelize-rushs-new-album
Prolific novelist Kevin J. Anderson has made no secret of his love for prog rock — and now he's taking his prog-rock fixation to the next level. He announced on his Facebook page that he's writing the novel version of Rush's new album, Clockwork Angels. Writes Anderson: After dropping hints for a while, finally the big announcement, a new project unlike any other I've ever done...and something that I consider very cool. Most of you are aware of my long-standing friendship with Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist from the legendary rock band Rush, as well as how much Rush has influenced my work. My first novel Resurrection, Inc. was closely inspired by the Rush album Grace Under Pressure, and I can point to dozens of other novels and stories that bear a clear Rush influence. For more than twenty years, Neil and I have wanted to collaborate on something MAJOR, a way we could tie together our imaginations, and at last that's happening. I'm writing the novelization of Rush's forthcoming album Clockwork Angels, their first new CD in five years. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For Rush fans, CLOCKWORK ANGELS is that project. I worked together with Neil to flesh out the epic story told over the course of the music, as well as the artist Hugh Syme whose paintings fill the CD booklet. In a young man's quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. To whet your appetite, Rush released the first two tracks, Caravan and BU2B - listen to those songs to get an idea of the story's beginning. I'm writing the chapters now, incorporating the lyrics into the narrative, and having a fantastic time. More details to come, but for now-to quote a line from Caravan: "I can't stop thinking big." [via Vintage Vinyl News]
#fiction #imported:pinboard #music #rush #scifi
archive.org #20722

#shitsiskosays - Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/shitsiskosays.html
I've been struck particularly by two things missing from the DS9 universe--one unpredictable in the 1993-99 span of the series, and one predictable but unattractive from the creators' standpoint. Nobody uses social media, and nobody wastes time.
#culture #ds9 #future #scifi #startrek
archive.org #20693

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm
A BBC team have been working closely with Dr Venn's team to help recover the signals. BBC Television historian Peter Wells, explained "We now know these are original broadcasts. So far we have recovered about 7 weeks of old television signals from space. Every day in our lab is like traveling back in time. And speaking of which we have just started the digital recovery of signals that contain lost Doctor Who episodes.
#awesome #cool #drwho #science #scifi #seti #space #tv #whoa
archive.org #20201

Sci-Fi Short XXIT Gets Big Blade Runner Look From Small Camera | Underwire | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/xxit
XXIT’s plot revolves around a beautiful “BioClone” from the future who travels to San Francisco to rescue the humans whose DNA she shares. The short film’s acting may be standard issue, but the visuals point toward a promising future for low-budget sci-fi. The crew shot the production on the streets of San Francisco using six handheld cameras that cost $20,000 apiece.
#cg #movies #scifi #video
archive.org #19637

jtnimoy: The Work of Josh Nimoy

http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178
I spent a half year writing software art to generate special effects for Tron Legacy, working at Digital Domain with Bradley "GMUNK" Munkowitz, Jake Sargeant, and David "dlew" Lewandowski. This page has taken a long time to be published because I've had to await clearance. A lot of my team's work was done using Adobe software and Cinema 4D. The rest of it got written in C++ using OpenFrameworks and wxWidgets, the way I've always done it with this team ;) Uniquely however, Digital Domain's CG artists were able to port my apps over to Houdini for further evolution and better rendering than OpenGL could ever provide. Special thanks to Andy King for showing me that what seasoned CG artists do at DD is actually not so far off from what's going on in the Processing community.
#animation #cg #design #film #graphics #movies #processing #scifi #specialeffects #tron
archive.org #19586

Talking the Monster to Death - Television Tropes & Idioms

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingTheMonsterToDeath
The hero has cornered the vicious monster. It's taken out everyone who has confronted it thus far, and the hero seems like no exception. That's when the hero, rather than drawing a sword, pulls out his cue cards. He begins a speech about the good things in life, the wonders of good, how Humans Are Special and the monster should respect that, yadda yadda, could someone hit the mute button please? And it works. This hideous monster surrenders, lets itself die, chooses to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, disappears in a Puff of Logic, or what-have-you.
#funny #scifi #tropes #tv
archive.org #19486

Star Trek Online opens up testing for the dilithium exchange | Massively

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/star-trek-online-opens-up-testing-for-the-dilithium-exchange
Filed under: Sci-fi, Business models, Previews, News items, Star Trek Online, Free-to-play The economy of free-to-play games can be a tricky business. Usually, they're managed by keeping a strict distinction between in-game currency and purchased currency, but Star Trek Online is taking a slig...
#gaming #mmorpgs #scifi #startrek
archive.org #19400

The 10 Most Explosively Masculine Captain Kirk Battle Techniques

http://io9.com/5855581/the-10-most-explosively-masculine-captain-kirk-battle-techniques
James Tiberius Kirk: lover, explorer, chanteur, a veritable 23rd-century bon vivant. Captain Kirk has many fine traits, but his martial prowess is perhaps most deserving of our fear and respect. Here are 10 fighting maneuvers that should be enshrined by Starfleet as "The Decalogue of Whooping Ass."
#funny #kirk #scifi #startrek
archive.org #19326

Blaster Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Blaster_Beam
"The Blaster Beam is a concept electronic musical instrument consisting of a 12 to 18-foot (5.5 m) long metal beam strung with numerous tensed wires under which are mounted electric guitar pickups which can be moved to alter the sound produced. The instrument is played by striking or plucking the strings with fingers, sticks, pipes or even large objects such as artillery shell casings. The instrument produces a very distinctive bass tone, the sound of which is often described as 'dark' or 'sinister'."
#instruments #music #scifi #sound #startrek
archive.org #15282

Roo'd by Joshua Klein - Free eBook

http://manybooks.net/titles/kleinjother07rood.html
"Fed was 18 when Tony got roo'd. He'd been prepping for early college admission with late-night com-classes, goggled in and finger-cramped over nasty circa-2009 C++ code examples while longing to toss it in for time to scan some flashy Java virii. Tony had been gone from his life for at least a couple years, five years his senior and a failure, as far as their folks saw it. Bailing out of a prestigious single-course curriculum at MIT, the rumor was that he'd crashed and burned on Pakistani kraft; carefully engineered cold cells delivering a prolonged payload of top-flight methamphetamines directly to the spongy flanges of his right hemisphere."
#books #cyberpunk #epub #novels #rood #scifi
archive.org #13750

TV | Star Wars | Dramatic Irony and Clone Wars | Overthinking It

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/01/28/clone-wars-irony
"Here’s the key thing to remember about the galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars: they are a complete and utter farce. Palpatine is literally controlling both sides: he commands the Republic’s clone army as Supreme Chancellor, and he leads the Separatist’s droid army as Darth Sidious. ... Imagine if Gargamel was secretly working for Papa Smurf. ... The Jedi lose the Clone Wars, bigtime. They not only don’t defeat the robot army, they are all killed. By their OWN TROOPS."
#cartoonnetwork #clonewars #scifi #startrek
archive.org #12769

Keanu Reeves To Play Selfish Cryo Creep In Scifi Romance Feature - Passengers - io9

http://io9.com/5457986/keanu-reeves-to-play-selfish-cryo-creep-in-scifi-romance-feature
"The film Passengers is set in the future, on board a spacecraft where the crew is making 100-year trip to a new planet via cryogenic sleep. Unfortunately for Keanu, his character is woken up a mere 10 years into the journey. Which means he can spend the rest of his life alone aboard the journeying ship, for 90 years. Or wake up another crew member, so they too can spend the last 90 years of their life in agony, trapped on board with an emotionless Keanu. So what does he do? Wake up the hottest chick, thus dooming her to an entire life with Keanu. Men."
#cryo #keanu #scifi
archive.org #12761

Charlie's Diary: The myth of the starship

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth_of_the_starship.html
"If we succeed in doing it, it's going to look nothing like the Starship Enterprise. Or even New Horizons. The whole reference frame we instinctively assume when we hear the word "ship" is just so wrong it's beyond wrong-ness: it's on a par with Baron Munchausen's lunar exploits as seen in light of the Apollo Program. We need a new handle for discussing and analyzing such a venture. And the sooner we consign the "-ship" suffix to the dustbin of failed ideas, the better."
#exploration #scifi #space #spaceships #starships
archive.org #12651

In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html
"Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are 'sold' to viewers, movie magic is close at hand."
#architecture #corridors #design #movies #scifi
archive.org #12532

gedblog » Blog Archive » So What? Big Deal!

http://gedblog.com/2009/08/15/so-what-big-deal
"The fine folks over at IO9 take a moment to let us know today is the 25th anniversary of the release of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Released on August 15th, 1984 Buckaroo Banzai is one of those movies that you either love to death or hate with the passion of a 1,000 burning suns. I and many of my college friends fall firmly into the former category. Buckaroo was one of the dozen or so movies we would pop into the VCR in our dorm’s lounge on a regular basis. Other movies in this category included Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Vampire Hunter D and The Princess Bride."
#buckaroobanzai #scifi #system:host=gedblog.com
archive.org #12515

Locus Online Perspectives: Cory Doctorow: Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html
"These facts were a currency in my social circle. We'd trade them like baseball cards. I'd show you my payphone trick and you'd show me your gag for turning the cellophane on a cigarette pack into a smoke-ring machine. Social capital accrued to everyone who could show or explain something that gave you power and insight into the mysterious workings of the world."
#culture #diy #hacking #ideas #invention #scifi #socialcurrency #technology #tricks
archive.org #12398

Sliders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders
What scifi show hasn't FOX screwed with? "The FOX Network aired the episodes in a different order to best capitalize on potential ratings-winning episodes, thus causing some continuity errors. For instance, the timer is first set to count down not in the pilot episode, but in "Summer of Love" — since FOX aired "Fever" after the pilot episode, though, many viewers were left confused as to why the Sliders suddenly had to leave within a very specific period of time. Similarly, the cliffhanger at the end of "Summer of Love" leads directly into the opening of "Prince of Wails" — which FOX had actually aired a week earlier"
#fox #geek #scifi #sliders #wikipedia
archive.org #12272

Why I So Very Much Dig My Stargate:Universe Creative Consulting Gig « Whatever

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/05/07/why-i-so-very-much-dig-my-stargateuniverse-creative-consulting-gig
"Because where else am I going to be able to give my thoughts on hyperthermophilic micro-organisms, infection vectors, black tape, M4 carbines, delta sunspot groupings, various animal venoms and the qualitative difference between “partially decomposed” and “partially eaten,” all at the same time? And have people thank me for it?"
#for:stlhood #scalzi #scifi #stargate #stargateuniverse
archive.org #12208

Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies

http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~butz/teaching/ie-ss03/papers/HCIinSF
"Science Fiction movies have been a source for speculation about the future of technology and human computer interaction. This paper presents a survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniques of the films to existing technologies and prototypes where possible. The interactions will be categorized with respect to their domain of real-life applications and also evaluated in regard to results of current research in human computer interaction."
#design #future #hci #interaction #interfaces #scifi #technology #ui #usability #ux
archive.org #11599

The Ur-Quan Masters - News

http://sc2.sourceforge.net
"The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page."
#games #gaming #nifty #sc2 #scifi #ur-quan
archive.org #11476

Roadside Picnic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
"The name of the novel derives from a metaphor proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman, who compares the visit to a roadside picnic. After the picnickers depart, nervous animals venture forth from the adjacent forest and discover the picnic garbage: spilled motor oil, faded unknown flowers, a box of matches, a clockwork teddy bear, balloons, candy wrappers, etc. He concludes that humankind finds itself in a situation similar to that of the curious forest animals."
#aliens #books #picnics #russian #scifi
archive.org #11457

Ronald Chevalier » Dr. Ronald Chevalier Is Now On Friendster!

http://ronaldchevalier.com/2008/07/dr-ronald-chevalier-is-now-on-friendster#comments
"Dr. Ronald Chevalier has recently discovered the joys of networking socially via the world wide web! He can now be found on Friendster, as well as such lesser known networking sites as Myspace and Facebook." You know, I forgot there still was a Friendster, let alone one being used ironically.
#drronaldchevalier #friendster #groinal #parodies #scifi
archive.org #11210

Charlie's Diary: Authorial input

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/04/preemptive_alert.html
"The author is responsible for delivering the stuff between the covers of the book, and has a legal right to have their name on the cover ... and that's about where their involvement in the layout and design of their book begins and ends."
#books #scifi #writing
archive.org #10671

Escape Pod » EP144: Friction

http://escapepod.org/2008/02/08/ep144-friction
"Gruen was on the sixty-first master, and while his wisdom had grown steadily, he had worn very little. He was incredibly well-preserved–the palms of his three-fingered hands still sported the deep, swirling ridges that had worn to nothing in most peopl
#fiction #podcasts #scifi
archive.org #10374

Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » The Most Amazing Video Of A Girl Playing Star Wars On The Trumpet… EVER

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/11/the-most-amazing-video-of-a-girl-playing-star-wars-on-the-trumpet-ever
"And just when you think you’re about to be blown away by her unbelievable horn skills… she proceeds to pump out the most cacaphonous, ear-splitting rendition of the Star Wars theme imaginable"
#for:osunick #for:stlhood #notmusic #odd #scifi #starwars #videos
archive.org #9778

mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Who Gives Away Books Online? "Scabs," Says Prominent Sci-Fi Writer

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/web_tech/who_gives_away_books_onlinescabs_says_prominent_scifi_writer_57030.asp
"This happens much more quickly now, sometimes at head-spinning speed. The downside is more bad writing is making it out there onto the internet; the upside is that good writers can find an audience, too. The other downside, of course, is that you might n
#copyfight #podcasting #scifi #writing
archive.org #8912

A Workshop Lexicon

http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/paradigms_workshop_sterling.lexicon
"This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and myself from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to SF workshops."
#cliches #scifi #writing
archive.org #8717

Sunshine

http://www.sunshinedna.com/film
Sounds like a twist on the killer asteroid plot. "The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. "
#entertainment #movies #scifi #sunshine
archive.org #7578

Eureka - SCIFIPEDIA

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Eureka
"Eureka is a new original series from the SCI FI Channel, a drama about a seemingly ordinary town whose residents lead extraordinary lives."
#scifi
archive.org #7369

Main Page - SCIFIPEDIA

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Main_Page
Is it just me, or did they manage to totally wreck whatever usability MediaWiki offers in the default skin? And... where's Recent Changes?
#scifi #wiki
archive.org #6942

Charlie's Diary

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/02/10#travel-2
"Incidentally, the folk tale that if you put a frog in a cool kettle and apply the heat gently, it won't notice the water temperature rising is apparently untrue. But it's a neat metaphor for gradual intensification of stress, so I'm going to keep using
#fiction #scifi #writing
archive.org #6373

:: SCIFIFANTASYNEWS.COM :: Short Fiction : Pentu

http://www.scififantasynews.com/article.aspx?nArticleID=1084
"It’s about a world that’s forced to destroy itself every 18 months to keep everyone employed through the rebuilding process. I wrote it to better nail down the themes of The Economic Opportunity of Destruction. If you like/hate it, send some feedback
#fiction #nifty #scifi
archive.org #5538

365 tomorrows - Eye For An Eye

http://www.365tomorrows.com/09/11/eye-for-an-eye
"Since your action took advantage of the female nature of Ilexya Eiin Dephryn, to properly experience the victim's role your body will be surgically altered to reflect the feminine characteristics of your species."
#scifi #stories #writing
archive.org #5413

COMP.BASILISK FAQ

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v402/n6761/full/402465a0_fs.html
"We're all nostalgic about the old, colourful web, and about television, but today's risks are simply too great."
#scifi
archive.org #5084

B Movies Invade Your TV! - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/arts/television/10beal.html?8hpib=&oref=login
'So, said Tom Vitale, the Sci Fi Channel's senior vice president for original movies "We had a choice of recycling older movies or going out and trying to create original movies ourselves. We went back to these producers who made genre movies, and asked t
#entertainment #scifi
archive.org #4986

Future predictions - short term

http://www.accelerando.org/_static/future_predictions.html
"The following are some informal projections of possible technology-oriented developments that I made back in late 1999 to early 2000, while I was working on part two of "Accelerando" ("Troubadour"). "
#scifi #stross
archive.org #4814

Accelerando!

http://www.accelerando.org/book
"The text of "Accelerando" will be available for download under a Creative Commons license from this site later this month (June 2005)." Oh, goody!
#books #scifi #stross
archive.org #4811

sundaymail - WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, PAL

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15337120&method=full&siteid=86024&headline=who-the-hell-are-you--pal-name_page.html
"'It's not the first time a Dalek has been foiled by the occupants of a London police box... and I suspect it won't be the last.' "
#drwho #scifi
archive.org #4334

Sci Fi Wire -- Who Actors In Short Supply

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=30171
"Producers of the BBC's new Doctor Who TV series are scrambling to find enough little people to perform in the show as tiny blue aliens, because most have already found work in the currently shooting movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harry Pott
#scifi #weird
archive.org #3937

Browder Joins SG-1

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-12/15/11.00.sfc=
"SCI FI Channel confirmed that Farscape star Ben Browder will join the cast of SCI FI's original series Stargate SG-1." Keen!
#scifi
archive.org #3803

Star Wars vs Star Trek in Five Minutes

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/FiveMinutes.html
"In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it." It's a pretty stark comparison :)
#scifi
archive.org #3328

Daleks invade Blackpool

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/daleks_invade_blackpool
"Daleks are more volatile than a mothership full of Russell Crowes, and have been known to deal summarily with persistent autograph hunters."
#scifi
archive.org #3254

Aronofsky Helming Watchmen?

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-04/22/10.50.rumors=
"Ain't It Cool News reported a rumor that Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) is in line to direct a proposed film version of Alan Moore's classic superhero graphic novel Watchmen."
#comics #scifi
archive.org #2331

Sky Captain Upends Tradition

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-04/09/12.30.film=
"Conran created the movie's story and backgrounds in a computer, then went out and shot real actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie) against blue screens."
#scifi
archive.org #2226

Doctor Who writers hired.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/09/09.00.tv=
"The writers behind the British TV shows The League of Gentlemen and Coupling are joining the team working on the new U.K. Doctor Who series, the BBC announced."
#scifi
archive.org #2015

Mad Mad House a bad bad show

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?c=Article&call_pageid=968867495754&cid=1078355410744&col=969483191630&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1
"After watching tonight's episode, you may decide to cast an eternal spell on the jackasses who dreamed up this madness." I miss the old SciFi channel.
#scifi
archive.org #1975

Disenchanted: Clear as mud

http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/humanity/body-language
"This is the last transmission of Alan Gerrard, the first diplomat of Earth to speak to a strange alien race in the only language they understand."
#cogsci #scifi
archive.org #1800

JMS: More B5 coming?

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.html?2003-12/02/10.45.tv=
"Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans on amessage board that he's working on a follow-up to the popular SF series..."
#scifi
archive.org #1645