Heres a one-page script treatment for the original Star Wars movie pitch, marked up to become a pitch for the first Harry Potter novel and/or movie. Hilarious send-up of mythical tropes that we seem to fall for every time. Joseph Campbell, eat your heart out. Found via Neatorama.
File this under Insane But Still Cool, a homebrew animator has cooked up C.O.D.E. Guardian, a 13-minute CG mini-movie that posits what World War II would have been like if the major powers had giant mecha robots at their disposal.
Id watch a full length movie based on the concept,...
Summer is official blockbuster movie season, so Ive got my list together of what any dork worth his geek cred will be seeing over the next four months (either in theater, or via the magic of bittorrent). So, with the help of SFSignal, heres a list of the flicks Ill...
What dark omens are foretold by a touchy CD-ROM tray on your PC? The always-illuminating xkcd has the answer. Come July, the Harry Potter literary trend is over, when the final book in the series is released. It would be a shame if all those budding readers--particularly science fiction fantasy readers--gave up books once the Potter wave crests. Our friends at SFSignal are set to do something about...
One of the great literary science fiction writers of all time has passed on: Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. I am hardly qualified to say much on the matter, especially when so many more eloquent, informed, and important folk have laid out such fine words on...
From Cracked magazine: The Top Ten 80s Robots (We Expected to Exist By Now). Example #3: The TerminatorDescription: Sometimes, a robot just has to want to destroy all humans, are we right? Also, whether ...
Last december, I asked if IT pros secretly hate Star Wars, because over 500 of you voted to rank your favorite sci-fi/fantasy franchise, and the Jedis came in a distant fifth, well behind the likes of Star Trek and even Stargate.[poll=2] Last week, I asked you to rank the greatest...
Ten one-line descriptions of ten famous science fiction saviors--in all their implausible glory--courtesy of My Elves Are Different, a minimalist retropunk webcomic that appeals only to the most insular of sci-fi fantasy geeks (which is to say, me). I can name nine of the candidates based on the clues, but...
A clever little computer animation from Sony Imageworks illustrating how karaoke may be the most underused cliche in all of science fiction. Count the inside jokes while rockin to the bad Motown renditions and slapstick humor. Found via SFSignal.
Science fiction authors Geoffrey A. Landis, M.M. Buckner and Adam Roberts discuss Project Constellation, NASAs planned successor to the space shuttle which will also be used as the base platform for planned trips back to the moon and, eventually, Mars. Landis has a couple of Hugos to his name, but.
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Before I discuss the book pictured at the left here, let me expose a dirty little secret of my sci-fi/fantasy book club: We hate everything. Every month, we pick a book, maybe a third of us read it, and those that do finish the tome proceed to rip it apart...
Too true!Look at all these "sci-fi" programs, most of which being remakes which is sick enough, that are being heralded as "supreme" when not "original" when it's obvious they're remakes and therefore not "original" in the slightest. Star Wars is no longer the most popular science fiction film ever made, at least according to a recent poll conducted by British science fiction magazine SFX (and reported by the BBC). While the floundering of George Lucas ubiquitous science fantasy franchise isnt necessarily a surprise--at least not to anyone...
Star Wars: First Love Sci-FiI still love sci-fi, because of Star Wars. My Father took me to it when I was a kid. (My first Dad / Son activity, so emotional, etc links there!) Star Wars was for me more real than Star Trek, Star Wars was gritty, more real...
What do you get when you merge the starship Enterprise, an X-wing fighter, the General Lee, a time-traveling Delorean, and Herbie the Love Bug? Why, the Awesomobile Mark VI, of course. From the demented mind of PvP creator Scott Kurtz comes this must-have t-shirt, depicting the ultimate geek driving (and/or...
In a recent Asimovs magazine column, science fiction author, editor, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Norman Spinrad, asserts that "hard" science fiction is in a precipitous decline and heres why:"In a society where the distinction between astronomy and astrology is probably blurry in...
Found via Engadget: The LandWalker, a real-world functional battlemech. Its 11 feet tall, weighs over a ton, and is armed with sidemounted airguns capable of spraying your enemies with sponge bullets, who will flee in terror at your Gundam-esque fury. (Well, stroll away in terror, as the Land Walker has..
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Your next office chair may be assembled from leftover parts of The Terminators endoskeleton and sections of the starship Enterprises main deflector dish. At least, thats what the latest image (found via Neatorama at Popular Science) from office furniture makers Herman Miller and Humanscale would lead us to believe....
From ThinkGeek, a quartet of t-shirts that express your Irish spirit (and perhaps your love of Irish spirits) in secret codes that only techno-geeks can possibly comprehend. Plus, theyll ward off that creepy touchy person in your office who threatens to pinch anyone not wearing green on St. Pattys day.
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