Tag: science fiction
member name: Nick Howes
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August 26, 2008 06:43 AM EDT --
Simple game although it does mean you pretty much have to be a science fiction reader, even if its just Jules Verne or H.G. Welles. Name a science fiction title, one title per entry. Book, . . .
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February 26, 2008 09:50 AM EST --
Heath Ledger , 28. Star of numerous films including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005) and as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight . January 22, 2008 of apparent overdose. . . .
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March 05, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
With Daylight Savings Time set to kick in Sunday, March 9th, its time to consider some of the best time travel movies for an appropriate Sunday marathon screening complete with popcorn and soda. . . .
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February 27, 2009 01:20 PM EST --
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprague de Camp, 2005, The NESFA Press, 377 pp.
A collection of de Camp's tiem-travel science fiction including "Lest . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
A welcome repackaging of stories from a premier writer of hard science fiction as he sallies into science fiction humor. Included are two books (he insists on calling them novellas) and a handful of short . . .
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April 13, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
SCIFI CHANNEL SNEAKS IN AN ENTERTAINING NEW SERIES
The Sarah Jane Chronicles premiered as a new series on the SciFi Channel Friday (04/11), a spin-off of the successful newest incarnatuion . . .
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December 13, 2009 09:53 AM EST --
THE CALLAHAN TOUCH, Spider Robinson, Ace, 1993, paperback, 226pp
Mary's Place is open and the remarkable group of former patrons of Callahan's Place show up including Pyotr, the vampire who puts . . .
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March 20, 2008 09:17 AM EDT --
Barry Morse, 89. Co-star on "Space:1999" and Inspector Girard on the 1960's hit TV series "The Fugitive" with David Janssen. Other genre work included his role as a meek tailor . . .
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April 19, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
More in the medical vein from the creator of ER than in the science-fiction of his Jurassic Park and Timeline, this is a longish but fast-reading book of short chapters speculating on many of the . . .
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December 19, 2008 08:51 AM EST --
The original Starship Troopers was an action-heavy movie with special effects which still fell short of Robert A. Heinlein's description of trooper technology described in his book. The flying . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
First published in 1977, Lucifer's Hammer offers a terrific story built around a comet that strikes the earth. The nucleus of the Hamner-Brown Comet breaks up as the ice binding the rocky material . . .
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December 12, 2008 12:36 PM EST --
The founder and editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" died December 8, 2008 of a heart attack following a long illness.
Forest J. Ackerman, 92, considered the greatest of all science fiction . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
A REBEL IN TIME, Harry Harrison, Tor, 1983, paperback, 315pp.
This is a time travel book and you can guess the gimmick just from the title and cover art. So you are several steps ahead of . . .
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December 10, 2008 07:37 PM EST --
Easy for science fiction fans. Name a science fiction author with one entry per response. I'll start off with one of my favorites:
Spider Robinson
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April 29, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
Ratings had to have gone off the charts for NBC's Deal or No Deal which ventured into a galaxy far, far away with a two-hour Star Wars-themed episode Monday night (April 28). The network publicized . . .
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June 26, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
Charlton Heston , 84. Actor whose roles frequently became cinematic icons such as Moses and Ben Hur, and whose genre work, intended to distance him from his earlier costume dramas, included Soylent . . .
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December 28, 2008 08:32 AM EST --
An alien merchant empire acquires a legion of Roman soldiers, the best soldiers who ever lived, to fight its battles on low-technology worlds, as dictated by their civil leadership. The Romans survived the . . .
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April 01, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
BETWEEN TIME AND TERROR. Robert Weinzberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, ed., 1995, 382pp.
An anthology of 17 science fiction stories with a dark fantasy slant. Horror stories . . .
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April 03, 2009 11:20 AM EDT --
GHOST OF THE GRAND BANKS, Arthur C. Clarke, 1990, not in print, check Amazon or Half.com
Clarke revisits the HMS Titanic with a novel based on the difficulties encountered by two rival groups who . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
The Draco Tavern, Larry Niven, 2006, TOR Books, $6.99 316 pp., paperback
The Draco Tavern is an old science fiction convention with Larry Niven's signature. It is located in Siberia, . . .
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