‘The Plasm’ is a novella in the SF/horror genre, a fine old tradition. Here’s what happens. Steve and Sam, a lady, are a salvage team working the Solar System. Sam is bold and daring while Steve is more cautious, wary of danger. When they come across the wreck of the Vordlak, Sam is overcome with […]
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi; stylised as SYFY) is the American pay television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television, a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel features science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, paranormal, drama, and reality programming. Well, the Syfy Channel has had a LOT of highs and lows since its launch in 1992. […]
Netflix, is producing an original anime series, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, set in the same game universe as Cyberpunk 2077. That’s ‘edge’ runner, not blade, got it? This will be a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses […]
Rowan J Coleman sits down to examine Star Blazers, the English-language animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime Space Battleship Yamato, first broadcast in the USA and UK in 1979. It was the first popular English-translated anime. In this one, Earth is attacked by Gamilon, a distant planet. The radiation from Gamilon’s planet bombs […]
The second season of the Umbrella Academy is upon us, and from the looks of this trailer, the superhero gang are back in the 1960s after having destroyed the future, but apocalypse just seems to keep dogging their heels. Hey, did they kill Kennedy? It’s like Scooby Doo, but the crew have super-powers and are […]
Away is a new 10-episode Netflix scifi TV series with Hiliary Swank, created by Andrew Hinderaker. A manned starship is sent to Mars with a crew of astronauts assembled from around the globe – the United States, Russia, China, India, and Great Britain. If all goes well, they will be away from the place they […]
Hello everyone Is the world going to pot and not of the smoking kind? I don’t know how it is for you people across the world but I find it worrying when any government stops listening to scientific/medical advice citing financial reasons or examples based on other countries. The fact that the latter has often […]
As the title of Linda Seger and John Rainey, ‘You Talkin’ To Me?: How To Write Great Dialogue’ should acknowledge is all about film dialogue. Seger is a script consultant and Rainey is a scriptwriter and how the two jobs work in the movie industry. Apart from being a university teacher on the subject, Seger’s […]
Literally energy from thin air? Energy storage from thin air sounds a bit too good to be true, but the beauty of this potentially transformational technology is the simplicity of a design that utilises tried and tested components that have been reimagined and re-engineered to perform a vital function for electricity grids, now and in […]
Is artificial intelligence an ELE-state threat to humanity? Hey, what the heck do we know about it at SFcrowsnest Towers? We can’t even beat those Paradox computer strategy games’ A.I. when war gaming. Luckily, we’ve got Elon Musk, Michio Kaku, and Steven Pinker on hand to advise us – and you – on how dangerous […]
I can’t really recall how I came across Serge Birault but googled his art, jaw dropped, saw he had a book out there and ordered one up. It’s also a bilingual book with text in French and English. Birault looks like he turned all of his sketches into paintings on PhotoShop or at least enhanced […]
‘The Plasm’ is a novella in the SF/horror genre, a fine old tradition. Here’s what happens. Steve and Sam, a lady, are a salvage team working the Solar System. Sam is bold and daring while Steve is more cautious, wary of danger. When they come across the wreck of the Vordlak, Sam is overcome with […]
Amazon Prime doesn’t want Netflix to think that it can hog the capes action with The Umbrella Academy – so it’s fired back and raised the stakes with the second season of their violent superhero TV streamer, The Boys. In season two, Butcher, Hughie, and the crew reel from their losses in Season 1. Now on […]
A video documentary from Henry Boseley which asks the question – and answers it (fairly bleakly) – “Star Wars: How To Kill A Franchise?”, in over one-hour-and-forty-minutes of analysis on what went wrong with the Star Wars films, what went right, and how it might have been re-scripted and polished up to a better result.
