science fiction

In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash. As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...

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...

On 2 april, 1968 premier Stanley Kubrick masterpiece 4 years earlier he decided to make The "Perfect" Movie and he succeeded 50 years later 2001: A Space Odyssey has nothing lost of its Magic, its mysteries Its Space Hardware still looks realistic, even timeless Allot of Sci-Fi Movies made...

The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash, which was totally improbable but looked very cool. In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC. However, in...

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

I just have to share this link. This SF - Ekranoplan looks just WOW! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o0z3J (pictures added)

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

In the 1960s children's comic TV21 Alan Fennell enlarged on the puppet shows of Gerry Anderson by creating a fictional world of 2065. He even provided a back history in which a limited nuclear in Europe had been started by an accident in 2028. A Prime Minister talking to an Air General (sic)...

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).

This link give you the frontpage from the new York times, Frank Poole was reading in Discovery. The Front news talks of missing airliner with 2304 people on board ! the craft label HEP/COMM 11-Z4 got twelve engine and take 2500 passengers and crew of 199 it make 2400 mph in 70000 feet...

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

Just finished watching the first episode of Ascension. Wow! George Dyson, call your office! I was wondering how they maintained a 1G acceleration -- all revealed in the last two minutes. David

An interesting compilation of Science Fiction Space scenes to the accompanyment of Anthony Hopkins reading "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LEr6vqWh2w (Note: If anyone knows how to get the video to display can they make that change and then let me know how.)

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...

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Did George Orwell invent the concept of the helicopter gunship in his novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' which he wrote in 1947? "April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused...