If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Potential filmmakers have found that by producing an exciting piece of work and putting on a user generated site such as YouTube can them noticed in all the right places. For example, take Carl Erik Rinsch, he produced a [...]
Science fiction has always been a market with a limited amount of viewers when compared to other types of drama and light entertainment, yet with the growth of digital TV, the opportunities increased. However, it seems that producing TV series is still a business and everything has to pay its way, in the case of [...]
I Am Number Four is based on the series of science fiction based novels targeted at the teen market by James Frey and Jobie Hughes. This is a format that has been seen before; it follows a group of gifted children and their parents or guardians who have travelled to earth in order to escape [...]
Brit actress Anna Friel has signed up to join the cast of Dark Fields, a thriller by Neil Burger, with just a hint of science fiction thrown in for good order. According to the trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, Dark Fields is the story of a writer down on his luck who happens to come [...]
It is a rare thing science fiction aimed at women, but if we look around at the people that visit conventions and events there are just as many women there as men, yet in film, TV and books women are often relegated to similar roles. However Bablegum have seen the future and women are right [...]
Science fiction is everything to all people, the genre covers an ever increasing circle and while some science fiction is great to some fans, it can turn out to be rubbish to others. This wide ranging genre has thrown up some interesting pieces such as Battlefield Earth, made in 2000 and starring John Travolta. While [...]
When the Sci-Fi Channel rebranded to simply SyFy the channel mentioned that the new brand would have a wider focus and we have seen this with some of the programming offered. However, at the same time this change has meant that new science fiction is also being commissioned, like Save By Zeroes, which is a [...]
A film with the title Hot Tub Time Machine is going to get the minds of science fiction fans racing. Is this a new version of the HG Wells classic or a completely new slant on the theory of time travel, how it is that possible? The answer is simple, this is a film rather [...]
With the revival of many science fiction characters from the past, such as Captain America, Flash Gordon and it looks like Dan Dare will even be making an appearance on the big screen, but what that all American hero, Buck Rogers? Despite being revived in the early 1980’s, Buck Rogers is the ideal hero whose [...]
Anyone that has watched early sci-fi would realise that these films and TV show were quite sophisticated and complex, sure, the acting and effects were not up to much, yet at the time, this was real science fiction. This influence is seen in some of the more recent shows and films; the only difference being [...]
Could this be the end of Fringe, as we know it? It seems that musicals are taking over the TV and as such, this influence will be creeping its way into one of the best science fiction shows currently on the TV Fringe. During May in the US, Fox will be airing the Fringe episode [...]
Excellent news for science fiction fans, the Sci-Fi channel will be launching the high definition version of the channel on the 13th April on the Virgin Media cable TV network. It is no big thing in the general day to day running of the UK satellite and cable channels as new HD channels are launched [...]
Although we are still awaiting the announcement of who will play the part of Captain America, his archrival on the other hand will be played by someone very familiar to all fans of science fiction. Hugo Weaving is no stranger to science fiction, playing Agent Smith in the Matrix, V in V for Vendatta, Elrond [...]
It is not that often that something is offered for nothing, but it seems that a science fiction author has decided that in order to get his work in front of the largest audience possible giving it away could be one route to take. Marco Santini is the author of The Alpha Centauri Project, this [...]
Science fiction fans fed up of watching actors and other media types taking the lime light can now get involved in the industry with the creation of myouterspace.com. This is an interesting site where science fiction fans and people looking to get involved in the industry as actors, writers, animators in fact just about any [...]
Has this been a vintage year for science fiction? For many fans, the answer would probably be yes as this year science fiction made a big impact not only on the big screen, but also on the TV too with series like Caprica, V and Fringe heading up the challenge. However, at the movies Avatar, [...]
It seems that for some intellectuals science fiction is just not realistic enough and in fact these physicists believe that the audience begin to lose interest in a film if the rules of nature are broken. But isn’t that what science fiction is, an escape from reality for a little while! If the Science and [...]
It was back in the summer of last year when the Sci-Fi Channel was rebranded into SyFy to reflect the more general type of content that is being broadcast. But in the UK the channel run by Universal Networks International, the Sci-Fi Channel remained in place, however on Tuesday the 13th April at 10 pm [...]
It seems that the wait for the remake of the 1980’s science fiction series V will finally be heading for the screens of the UK viewer, despite already being shown in the US for some time now, although it is currently taking a break to allow for the coverage of the Winter Olympics. The series [...]
The internet TV revolution has been great for science fiction fans, with content otherwise unavailable being found within a few clicks all sorts of content both old and new becomes available to the user. One such show is Trenches this has premiered in the US on crackle.com, it has been in the making for around [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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