by G.L. Breedon | Jul 28, 2011 | Art, Science, Science Fiction, Space
There is a nice article at BBC News today about the relationship between spaceship art and spaceship design. There is even a quote at the end of the article by my favorite professor from college, Eric S. Rabkin. But space is a particularly romanticized part of our...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 26, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction, SF & Fantasy News
Great news today. SF Gateway will be publishing tons of great sci-fi classics as ebooks over the next few years. Whole back lists of authors whose work is currently out of print an unavailable. They are being published by Orion Books, the same folks who are bringing...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 20, 2011 | Film, Science Fiction
Janus Films is rereleasing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire in a tour of art house movie theaters for the next several months. If you are lucky it is playing near you sometime soon. I’ve never seen the film, but the description and the trailer...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 18, 2011 | Reviews, Science Fiction, TV
I don’t know who’s “genius” idea it was to break up this year’s Dr. Who season into two parts, with six epodes at the start of summer and the rest in the Autumn, but I don’t see the logic. Not only am I deprived of fun summer sci-fi...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 13, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Science Fiction
I read The Passage a few months ago, but I didn’t have this blog then. Although I did like The Passage, I felt I could have liked it much more. Partly that is because I was not expecting a 250 page prologue. Nor was I expecting the time jump in the story after...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 7, 2011 | Science Fiction, TV
This is probably old news to others, but I just discovered that Netflix now has all the seasons of the original Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager available for streaming. Of course I already own the restored Star Trek on DVD, and...
