In time for today’s opening of TRON: Legacy, Titan Publishing has released the official TRON: Legacy movie magazine. The magazine features: Interviews with the cast, including Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn), Garrett Hedlund (Sam Flynn), Olivia Wilde (Quorra) and Michael Sheen (Castor) A closer look at the vehicles and weapons from the movie, including the iconic […]
“We’ve attracted almost three times as many scholars than we’ve ever hosted,” said Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections & Archives at University of California Riverside (UCR) and co-organizer of the 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference. “There is greater diversity of presenters and topics,” she added. As I mentioned in a previous post, authors Samuel […]
If you live near a participating PacSun store, you can score two tickets to see TRON: Legacy in 3D at 12:01am on December 17th (while supplies last). Simply stop by PacSun (a list of participating stores is below) and purchase an item from Hurley’s TRON: Legacy collection. This will be the first opportunity for fans […]
In episode 12, Carma chats with author and fellow science fiction fan Donna Shannon about how Star Wars affected the way we look at the world; the works of P.K. Dick; the evolution of print fiction and how Netflix is helping genre fans discover small and independent gems such as Dead and Breakfast starring Jeffery […]
In Episode 11, the bass guitarist of Framing Hanley, Luke McDuffee, and I shoot the breeze about our experiences with science fiction fandom. Our conversation meanders over such topics as: how we got introduced to science fiction, Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchet, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, the movies based on Frank Herbert’s Dune, Herbert’s book The […]
Galaxiki, created in 2007, is a wiki based, editable online fictional galaxy consisting of millions of stars, planets, moons, pulsars, black holes and much more. Site members can edit solar systems, invent life forms and write their own science fiction stories. Community members have to make sure their stories are compatible with other user’s stories […]
In Episode 10, best-selling author Frank Fiore and I chat about his novel, Cyberkill. During the conversation we tackle such questions as: Can artificial intelligence become self aware? If it did become self aware, would it be more analytical like Spock or emotional like McCoy? What does it mean to be human? Can you improve […]
WARNING: The content of this podcast is a bit controversial. My guest talks about how alien races affected human civilization and some may see what he has to say as heretical. In Episode 9, I chat with Dr. Bryan Carlile about his novels, Romancing Jehovah and Immortal Dying, as well as his theories on alien […]
First, let me be totally honest … I did not read this book from cover to cover. Who would? It would be like reading a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover. Who does that? Ultimately this isn’t really a “travel read” but it is a very good, well-researched reference work on the […]
Shore Leave is a fan-run science fiction convention held each year in the Baltimore area. It often has a Star Trek emphasis, but has expanded beyond that, as well. The 33rd convention will be held July 8-10, 2011 and registrations are now open. Guests have yet to be confirmed or announced, but they usually include […]