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Remember This?
For those of you who had better things to do in 1983 than watch execrably bad SFTV, Automan was a short-lived series inspired (unofficially) by TRON. Produced by Glen A. Larson*, starring a perpetually-bewildered Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner’s hair, it did nothing to enhance the reputation of computer programmers. I’d completely forgotten about…
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2007 Preliminary Nebula Ballot
NOVELS – 13 Vellum: The Book of All Hours – Duncan, Hal Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling, J. K. Odyssey – McDevitt, Jack Mainspring – Lake, Jay The Accidental Time Machine – Haldeman, Joe Species Imperative #3: Regeneration – Czerneda, Julie E. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Chabon, Michael The New Moon’s…
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BSG Propaganda Posters
Battlestar Galactica seems to be spawning an awful lot of posters. In addition to the “How to Spot a Cylon” PSA poster, Quantum Mechanix has also come up with these cute posters done in the style of WWII propaganda ads. Link (via Cynical-C)
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The 10 Best SF Films Never Made
Here’s an interesting roundup of films that have either never made it onto the screen, or were botched so badly that they shouldn’t have made it. It’s hard to argue with most of these. Visions of awesomeness flashed through my head, a Blade Runner-ish Earth with sprawling, filthy buildings, huge, flashing billboards with giant Asian…
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Pern Novels Optioned
Apparently riding the wave of recent big-budget fantasy movies, Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern novels have been optioned by the Canadian film production company Copperheart Entertainment. I’m questioning this a little: “I decided that Pern had to be done right and I wouldn’t let it go to someone unless I was certain that they were…
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Ten Dumb Moments in SF Cinema
Movie Digger has compiled a list of the ten dumbest moments in otherwise very successful (i.e., “blockbuster”) SF movies. I think there are a couple of notable omissions (:::cough:::…midiclorians…:::cough:::), but it’s hard to argue with any of the ones they selected. The raptors, despite having acorn-sized brains, seemed to have no problem navigating a vast…
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Buckaroo Banzai Returns (Sort of)
Fans have been waiting nearly 20 years for the promised sequel, Buckaroo Banzai Versus The World Crime League, and…they’re going to have to wait a while longer. However, the original writers have teamed up to produce a two-issue comic book Prequel. Entitled Of Hunan Bondage, it is described thusly: Buckaroo finds himself in dire straights:…
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Let’s Just Cancel it Now and Avoid the Rush
First, the good news: Joss Whedon, of Firefly fame, is coming back to television with a new SF series called Dollhouse. Now, the bad news: It’s been bought by Fox, who seems to make a hobby out of canceling promising SFTV. The premise is kind of neat: The ultra-rich can buy a perfect fantasy, whatever…
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Pixar to Tackle John Carter
(Not literally.) Pixar, creators of Toy Story, Ratatouille, Monsters, Inc., and et cetera have chosen A Princess of Mars as their next project, with a view to doing a trilogy. They also intend to film the novel as a combination of live-action and computer animation, which is a first for them. Whaddaya wanna bet that…
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Seven SF/Horror Films
Movie site Cinematical has a list of seven films with horror and science fiction elements. The post doesn’t really state that they’re considered the best SF/Horror films–and with Lifeforce as one of the entries I’m thinking there’s some bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping going on–but there’s no question that there’s seven of ’em, and they’re SF/Horror hybrids. If you’re…