sci-fi Archives

28th Clarke Award For Science Fiction Shortlist Announced
Throw in the fact you have authors on the list who aren't white middle-aged dudes and it's a shortlist that looks a lot like what SF actually is, as opposed to what the backwards facing elements would like it to be. The winner will be announced on Thursday, the 1st of May at an exclusive award[...]
Do You Like Your Sci-Fi Short And Your Interviews To Be Moving?
Do you like your science fiction stories short? Like really short? Like one page long? More like sci-fi pitches rather than stories… Well over on a website called fireballtim.com they are doing Hypershorts, a series of one page science fiction pitches written by Anthony Lawrence who worked on sci-fi classic TV like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits[...]
Eden: An Explosive Sci-fi Tale by Eric Henson
Eden is an explosive, sci-fi tale told in a 28 page, full-color comic And as a backer who's unfortunately not rolling in cash, much to my chagrin, but has plenty of enthusiasm I'm writing to rally the troops and help push them towards their stretch goals. The original goal of issue #1 was funded in just[...]
The Latest Sci-Fi Show On American TV – Weeds?
US TV could do with a decent sci-fi show again. The series finale of Weeds this week jumped forward a few years Again Except this time a few things have changed in the world around them Not just Stevey being played by a new, older actor, or Doug's successful cult… technology has moved on too. A[...]
Looper: The Bleeding Cool Review
That little rubber schnozz kept distracting me from one of the cleverest, most interesting sci-fi films I've seen since…I dunno…12 Monkeys and throwing me back out into immutable reality. Still The setup's a corker Assassins wait in 2042 for hogtied victims to be sent back 30 years by future gangsters for an undetectable hit[...]
Battleship: Kitsch / Rihanna
Peter Berg's board game adaptation offers explosions, epic CGI, and grid-based combat. But nobody has the perspicacity to say 'You sunk my battleship!'. Can it still rule the waves?
Men In Black 3 Gets A Videogame: We Get A Look At It
Running up to its Spring 2012 release date The Men In Black 3 hype machine begins to spin up with this first look at the inevitable spinoff videogame. It'll run on your XBox, Playstation or standard-issue Neuralyser.
Terra Nova: Is This Retreat Into Prehistory The Future Of SciFi Telly?
It's long past time for a new high-quality sci-fi drama But is this time travelling caper worth your time? Michael Moran investigates… A lot of people are saying a lot of nice things about Terra Nova, Sky 1's shiny new high-concept sci-fi show We didn't, but now it's running and picking up favourable reviews it was[...]
Review: Real Steel – Is It Zarjaz Or Is It Stomm?
Some sci-fi films are born out of some cutting edge research cribbed from last month's New Scientist Real Steel goes a little further back: It's a concept straight out of the golden-age 2000AD playbook. But is it zarjaz? Or is it stomm? In fact Real Steel is more than just some recycled "Tharg's Future Shock"[...]