science fiction

This is very sad, RIP to a man who was immensely entertaining on SG-1. https://bleedingcool.com/tv/stargate-sg-1-veteran-tv-actor-cliff-simon-passes-away-age-58/

Game removed from store. Also full refunds being offered to consumers. Fairly unprecedented for a triple A title but I am not surprised to be honest. Been looking at some of the numerous bug videos online and it’s clear it was a broken mess when launched. As an owner of an original PS4 glad I...

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=45038 https://www.tor.com/2020/11/30/legendary-science-fiction-author-ben-bova-has-passed-at-the-age-of-88/ The hits still just keep coming as 2020 draws to a close. Rest In Peace. :(

2020:what a nefarious year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse

The artist Ron Cobb, known for his work for many science fiction movies and TV series, has passed away. :( Source : View: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1308071692296740864?

The late designer and artist, Syd Mead, once reportedly said "I have been trying to ger rid of wheels since 1963". His beautiful floating cars (no ugly rotor fans or troublesome downblast) are as impossible nearly 60 years later, or are they? Probably yes, but if any of you know more?

http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-weapons-of-science-fiction-m590-exo.html

Dan Cooper is another fighter pilot comic caracter, in the kind of Buck Danny and Tanguy & Laverdure, but Canadian. Author was Albert Weinberg. Know it much less than the other two, but had a few albums as a kid. One album called "Programme F-18" is about the selection of the Hornet by RCAF...

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/20/05/04/0456220/this-may-the-4th-gets-unusual-celebrations-for-star-wars-day

Meant to post this back in February. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51644229 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/books/clive-cussler-dead.html Rest In Peace :(

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/tech-takes-a-back-seat-to-interconnected-human-stories-in-tales-from-the-loop/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop_(role-playing_game)

As the UK wrestles with the issue of whether to build the HS2 high speed rail link from London to the North I had to revisit the world of the late Gerry Anderson as drawn by the artist Graham Bleathman. Like a lot of 60s ideas monorails looked cool but were expensive and impractical- how would...

As a kid in the 60s I remember being fascinated by the guest vehicle in the second THUNDERBIRDS episode Pit of Peril The walking US army vehicle also appeared in annuals and TV21 comic and a porcelain replica appeared a few years back. Watching the video again it would make David A furious but...

Re-reading old comic strips like Dan Dare and TV21 I am struck by the absence of a Royal Family in their future Britain. In Dan Dare we are never told there is no monarch but names of various organisations and images of London suggest there is not one. Alan Fennell in TV21 is more specific...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lawrence-paull-dead-oscar-nominated-production-designer-blade-runner-was-81-1254951 https://variety.com/2019/film/news/lawrence-paull-dead-dies-blade-runner-1203405487/ https://gizmodo.com/lawrence-g-paull-oscar-nominated-visionary-behind-bla-1839880954...

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

In the Gerry Anderson series Space 1999 nuclear weapons are stored on the moon along with other nuclear waste after a limited nuclear war/ terrorist act in Switzerland in the 80s. The Anderson derived comic had already created a World Government in 2028 following a limited nuclear war in Europe...

Playing with you tub and two of my favourite movies. First up is my home town of Oxford. Never heard of the books until I saw the Polar Bear ad for the film Golden Compass. Like the film for the Polar Bear but had to laugh at Hollywood's images of Oxford in the "real" as opposed to the world...

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...