science fiction

Those of you who remember the old Gerry Anderson tv shows may not remember a 60s comic called TV21. It had stories based on the Anderson shows but also a strip devoted to the Daleks but without a certain Doctor. I always wanted to see a crossover between the two worlds. Some years back I did a...

Those of us who grew up in the 1960s with the TV21 comic derived from the various Gerry Anderson TV shows remember the weird and wonderful machines featured. After my BAOC Fireflash I decided to revisit Fireball XL5. In the TV21 summer special of 1966 there was a brief glimpse of a possible...

This is an idea that seems to be coming back into fashion. I have a bit of a suspicion that with the concept below, someone may have looked up the old hard engineering data from the production of Waterworld as part of their background research...

Given the distinct trend that real world events have taken lately, I thought it was long since time for a dedicated cyberpunk thread. For both real world examples as well as the fictional (e.g. universes such as The Sprawl [Neuromancer], Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020, etc.). I'll start off things...

This is a suggestion to the administrator. How about a thread or threads of fictional TV and movie spacecraft and aircraft?

I've posted one image from this unauthorised comic book version of Star Wars published in China in the early 1980s (Bobba Fett & co make various cameos, so it has to have been published after Empire Strikes Back came out.) in the 'Fictional Aircraft from Movies, Games, etc.' thread, but what's...

Just seen these on the GPTNW Facebook page......Enjoy! And feel free to rip this apart! :D

Special effects model of Liberator from the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7 found on eBay. Model built by special effects model great Martin J Bower. Source: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blakes-Seven-7-Original-Series-Liberator-Studio-Model-Film-TV-Movie-Star-Prop-/231564669649

Futuristic helicopter from the Russian urban fantasy/horror film Temnyy Mir (Dark World) (2010).

For any of you fellow Trekkies on here. A great loss indeed. :'( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?ref=arts&_r=2

It was pretty spectacular. None of you have seen it yet?

Yes i know that's Science Fiction Movie but the one with realist hardware you can build. Now for 50 anniversary of Production begin of 2001, Offers Taschen Verlag The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s '2oo1: A Space Odyssey' on 1384 pages, i repeat: one thousand three hundreds and eighty-four...

Last summer I did something I hadn't done in 20 years: I finished a science fiction story. A published professional author read it, offered suggestions and declared it good for publication. I sent it on to Analog science fiction magazine in September, and yesterday I finally heard back: nope. No...

A video clip with a rather strange sound track showcasing SF helmets from an impressive array of films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMgmxkZ0pWI See how many films you can guess without the aid of the end credits, or the creators notes Spot the only actor to appear...

this hurt's http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-20845407 So many Artist died this year Moebius, Harry Harrison, Tony Scott and now Gerry Anderson He enlighten my Childhood, with bright beautifully light. He gave me wonderful dreams called: Stingray, Thunderbird, Captain...

There allot Specualtion about new "Batcopter" in The Dark Knight Rise now is got a name The Bat and is a VTOL Platform ! it got two turbojet engine in arms, There exhaust are let over the arms to underside of The Bat were deflected by ribs downwards, on top side of Bat are perforated...

There are always tons of spacecraft in the world of science fiction but I am always especially looking out for ones that look plausible and could be built today or in the near future. First are some sketches and designs for various vehicles shown in the Japanese animated series "Gundam" (Set in...

Another one of those flashbacks I had while looking for that old ALSV article was about a movie regarding a stranded spaceplane getting rescued by the shuttle Columbia. Saw it ages ago on KTLA's Saturday matinee or something like that. They usually ran crapfest TV movies around noon. After...

Here's an anime concept showing underbody conformal tanks/bays for an F-16, to answer the complaint about dorsal missile carriage. Couple that with the diverterless inlet and F-16XL style large wing, and you would have something interesting to work with.

Devil's Tower. Absolutely *zero* points for catching the vague cultural reference...