SciFi

Women in beautiful space – read all about it

A snippet of a scene from Dicebox.

Dicebox is a gorgeous scifi graphic novel about interesting, independent women.

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Futurama’s good news

Sci-fi TV show Futurama is to return.

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Futurama bends back

Oh, excellent news: one of my favourite TV shows, Futurama, is making something of a return. Cult cartoon Futurama is coming back later this year as a full-length film. The movie, Bender’s Big Score, will be available to buy on November 27 as a high-definition DVD, and will be followed by three other feature-length movies. [...]

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Stargate S8 musings (spoilers)

Spoilers below. Be warned. I like watching Sci-Fi on TV, and have long enjoyed Stargate SG1. After seeing most of the first 7 series on TV I gradually bought the DVD sets. Then about a year ago I bought Season 8. Somehow between being busy and temporarily going ‘off’ Stargate I hadn’t got around to [...]

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The long of it – 2001, Happy Feet, Babel

I’ve always been a sci-fi fan. In my youth I read my way through a lot of sci-fi until it seemed only bug-eyed monsters were left, and then stopped for quite a while. I definitely read Arthur C Clarke, and indubitably 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I dimly recall really enjoying. I’m sure I also [...]

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Half a million for a prop

As a kid I watched Star Trek (The Original Series) and loved it. I’m still very fond of the various Star Trek series and sci-fi in general. This year is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek and with no new series in production it seems they decided to auction off a whole lot of props. [...]

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