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Project London and modern SciFi – rethinking movies from the ground up
What to do when you have an idea for a SciFi blockbuster with plenty of special effects, talented actors and a script in hand but you just can't get the funding together? If you're the folks at Spiral Productions you politely give the finger to thoughts of funding and script shopping then you go out and make your live action effects laden SciFi blockbuster. If that's not impressive enough, the film looks good and this is coming from a SciFi movie aficionado. Project London is an epic film with huge budget worthy special effects, and plenty of them, created by volunteers on the web and resulting in an actual, watchable, movie.
Continue reading...This Is Not A Game
Friday, March 26, 2010
I picked this up purely on the basis of my impressions of Williams’ earlier work, Hardwired. Hardwired is a book that has a fair amount of influence in the Cyberpunk genre, and Williams wrote a supplement for Cyberpunk 2020 based on Hardwired as well. Though I was expecting the book to be Cyberpunk-ish, I had no idea how much of a gamer’s book it was until I started reading it.
Continue reading...Economic stress, job stress, life stress, STRESS – the value of escape into Science Fiction and Fantasy
Monday, June 29, 2009
Whenever I think my life is hectic and a bit unreal I remind myself that Ender had it a lot worse. Most of the folks in the Culture Universe that I know, although vastly more advanced than I am, are in general a lot worse off. Having a group of highly advanced aliens plotting your downfall can be a real bummer, as can angry orcs charging with drawn swords.
Continue reading...Reverse Alienation, an Experiment
Thursday, April 30, 2009
This is a short piece I wrote this week. It's an experimental science fiction piece exploring the idea of reverse alienation, and how a group would be perceived by someone with absolutely no prior knowledge about them, their culture, or even their species. Enjoy.
Continue reading...Don’t Lose Out on the Lost Fleet: Military Sci-Fi at its Finest
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
As satisfying as the technical side of the series is, it would be nothing without an engaging story. As the tale opens the two immense human governments (sentient aliens never having been encountered) have been at war for an entire century. One hundred years of total war, devastating both sides to the point that ships rarely survive five years (and remember, just getting from point A to B takes weeks, even months) and officers are young and poorly trained. The bulk of the Alliance fleet has been drawn into a trap in the Syndic capital system, given a 'key' to use the Syndic hypernet gate system by a supposed traitor. Worse than the fleets decimation is the loss of the entire flag staff. (All the senior captains and all the admirals) Their only hope, trapped so far behind enemy lines, is Captain 'Black Jack' Geary, a legendary hero thought killed in the very first battle of the war, found by the fleet in a damaged life pod as it headed towards ambush.
Continue reading...The Moon, exponential human expansion in Space and you.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I was browsing the Google Lunar X-Prize page recently and I have to say, I'm very excited by this. Very, very excited. The SF geek inside my head is bashing the Fantasy geek back with his own broadsword at the idea of private, possibly 'maverick' space pioneers sending stuff to the moon. Our stuff. Without the funding of a government. Wow. There are some very good reasons why we have to get off of this planet and I think Earth Day is a great day to think beyond the Earth to help alleviate some of the Earth's problems.
Continue reading...They’re called aliens for a reason
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I'm an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy. I also enjoy the occasional scientific text for those of us who aren't physicists or biologists. I'm also (to the surprise of many) not a big Star Trek fan. And I have a bone to pick with certain SF television shows and movies and what they've done to the collective unconscious as far as alien life is concerned.
Continue reading...Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: So it’s come to this OR Everything is better with Zombies
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Since Romero shined a spotlight on the undead in '68 - and by extension on our society, zombies in film and literature have become an accepted method of extemporizing on modern societal ills. From the centralization of wealth in the few, political farce right through to woes of poverty and injustice for the poor.
Continue reading...Singularity University or How NASA is Facilitating an AI God
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No this isn't the title of my next favorite SF book. It's actually a real teaching institution sponsored in part by NASA who's goal is to (in their own words): Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.
Continue reading...New Watchmen trailer up, now with more bits in it
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A new Watchment trailer has hit the virtual streets today. You can now glimpse all kinds of new bits, including Doc Manhattan's bits if you know what I mean. Or at least a glowing blue representation of the same.
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