Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: October 8, 2014

Created by VLADO KRIZAN

Created by Vlado Krizan


Interview: The Barrington Courier-Review interviews Gene Wolfe, author of Solar Cycle.

Interview: Diabolical Plots interviews Martha Wells, author of The Death of the Necromancer.

5 great Rashomon TV episodes: From The X-Files to Farscape and more, Den of Geek talks us through 5 great multiple perspective TV episodes…

5 Sci-Fi Writers Who Predicted The Future Of Cloud Computing

Almost Humane: What BattleStar Galactica can teach us about our treatment of prisoners of war.

Blastr on 7 horror characters who never should have gone to space.

Doctor Who: Is the Doctor really darker in this incarnation?



Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera complains The Register about a series centered around a man traveling through space in a Police Box.

Don’t Diss Dystopias: Sci-fi’s warning tales are as important as its optimistic stories.

The Dystopian City and Urban Policy: Science fiction has inspired scientists and political activists, but it should be an inspiration for municipal governments too.

Enough With Dystopias: It’s Time For Sci-Fi Writers To Start Imagining Better Futures.

On Starships and Dragonwings lists Top Ten Hard-to-Read SF/F Books.

Original Star Wars Producer: Star Trek Was An Influence For George Lucas. Was there anyone out there who ever thought otherwise?

Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds And 7 Other Meta Books-Within-Books That Bend Your Imagination

Sir Alec Guinness talks about his experience reading Star Wars for the first time, earning a percentage, and seeing the final film.

The space elevator: Extreme science fiction that’s still a long way from science fact. Gizmodo also weighs in on The Quest To Build An Elevator To Space

Star Wars Episode 7: Spoilers, Theories & Expanded Universe Connections Explained! Because the only think a geek enjoys more than a suspenseful film is being the only person in the theater who already knows what’s going to happen.

Stephen Hawking, the Sci-Fi Universe and Everything: Paste magazine examines the scientist’s contributions to the worlds of film and television science fiction.

The Telegraph wonders Has Doctor Who become too frightening?

Ten Thoughts About the Doctor Who episode “Kill The Moon” from Bleeding Cool.

Welcome to the War of Tomorrow: How Futurama’s writers depicted asymmetrical warfare.

Why “Call of Duty” May Not Help Us Predict Future Wars. Next week: Why Super Mario Bros. may not teach us anything about plumbing.

Why Star Trek: The Next Generation Is Great in Spite of Being Mostly Terrible


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