A granddad who can disappear; a long-missing mom who can fly. At first glance, the extraordinarily-abled outcasts whom society brands as dangerous in sci-fi movie Freaks (streaming here on Peacock!) seem to have a whole lot in common with the mutants of Marvel’s X-Men movie-verse — a resemblance that feels even more apt in...
If you love #scifi, #space, #spaceexploration etc then #ACityOnMars is a fantastic read on the harsh realities of space settlement (and what we don’t know about it). Check it out!
If Zack Snyder’s new movie, Rebel Moon, which opens mid-December and just released a trailer, looks a lot like a Star Wars movie, that’s not an accident. Snyder originally pitched it as one, and hasn’t been shy about admitting it....
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first gam...
Doctor Who enters a transformative era with Russell T. Davies at the helm, confirming its significant shift to Disney+ in 2024, a daring decision for the esteemed British science-fiction series. After reigning as a sci-fi TV favorite for sixty years, the series is making a comeback, complete with a significant alteration that...
The ability to jump forward and backwards in time has long fascinated science fiction writers and physicists alike. So is it really possible to travel into the past and the future?
Last weekend, Elon Musk announced that his artificial-intelligence startup, xAI, was launching a chatbot with “a bit of wit” and “a rebellious streak,” known as Grok. As Musk explained, Grok is modeled on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a snarky manual for interstellar travelers that the humorist Douglas Adams...
@villainousfriend I wish I had better news, when I first wrote my novel mesh, I made sure that the protagonist was wheelchair bound and getting his legs fixed with a cybernetic robotic leg system was part of the plot. I got such a bad feedback on that, so many accusations of being insensitive, that I took it out.
The success of the anthology series has led to a string of lesser copycat shows and films in a genre that needs to look beyond. If this sounds to you like the premise of a Black Mirror episode, you would be correct. That’s loosely the synopsis of Hang the DJ, the fourth installment of the British futurist anthology series’...
"We are opening up this 'Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact' exhibit and the idea is to go into some of the fun of exploring how science fiction has sometimes turned into science fact and how sci-fi has affected sci-fact. Basically, how they constantly influence each other," New Mexico Museum of Space History Executive Director Chris Orwoll said....
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is regarded as one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek movie of all, but Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore also points out the "bad way" Star Trek II impacted the movie franchise. Ricardo Montalbán played the titular, genetically engineered villain,...
The Silo comparison isn’t unearned: Beacon 23 is based on a short story collection by Hugh Howey, who wrote the source material for Silo. The series follows a space lighthouse (Howey really has a thing for cylindrical buildings) and the various keepers who have lived there over the years. The first episode focuses on...
Any writers on /m/scifi up for critiquing my middle grade scifi novel query? Here it is:
Sometimes you have to leave Earth to find home…
Meet Micah “Mike” Thomas, a 12-year-old boy whose life is thrown into chaos after his mother’s passing. He longs for a return to normalcy, but his grandmother, a female version of Elon Musk, has other plans. His new reality is a nightmare: friends desert him, grades plummet, and his dad’s emotional absence deepens. His sister, Jenn, drowns her grief as a social media influencer addicted to attention at any cost, while Grandma – intent on punishing Mike’s dad for her grief – tightens her grip on the broken family.
In search of a fresh start, Mike’s dad takes a new job in Santa Fe, but the challenges persist. His sister’s social media obsession grows, and his father remains emotionally distant. Even his trusty AI companion can’t fill the void. The new job brings a secret project – the world’s first space elevator – putting the family in the crosshairs of Grandma’s narcissistic rage.
Mike yearns for his mother’s return and a shot at a normal kid’s life, impossible when Grandma forces him to spy on his own dad. Beating Grandma at her own game requires a journey into the stars and into the heart of his family’s deepest pain. Mike will rescue the space elevator – and his family – from Grandma’s destructive designs, even at the cost of his AI best friend.
“MIKE.SIERRA.ECHO” is a 65,000-word Middle Grade hard sci-fi thriller set in Boston, Santa Fe, and Ecuador, 150 years into the future. It will engage readers who enjoyed “We Dream of Space” by Erin Entrada Kelly and “Rebecca Reznik Reboots the Universe” by Samara Shanker.
Science fiction novels and movies are packed with far-out ideas, most often as the springboard for an action-packed adventure rather than a serious attempt to predict future trends in science or technology. Some of the most common tropes, such as accelerating a spacecraft to fantastic speeds in a matter of seconds without...
Jeanne DuPrau’s “Project F,” Patricia Forde’s “The Girl Who Fell to Earth” and Donna Barba Higuera’s “Alebrijes” answer the question, Could this be the beginning of the end?
After Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been the same, and there are some aspects of the movie that explain how it broke the universe. The latest of Marvel Studios' Avengers movies, 2019's Avengers: Endgame, is the biggest superhero movie of all time. The MCU was at the height of its popularity during...
Science fiction spaceships seen from a person's point of view. Want to see more ships? don't miss this comparison: https://youtu.be/tG8uC24Gbos≈ - Approximat...
By the time Billy Dee Williams was approached to play Lando in the Star Wars franchise, he was concerned about being typecast as a 'romantic character.'
The rebels were the original good guys of the Star Wars franchise who saved the galaxy from the evil Empire, but there are still things about the Rebellion that make no sense. Some flaws with the Rebel Alliance were always apparent from the start of the original trilogy, while other problems arose through subsequent sequels and...
Those of you who’ve watched Star Trek: The Original Series have likely feasted your eyes on an original three-foot model of the ship that has been missing for decades. Thanks to some Trekkie sleuth…
Happy to say that The Battle of Victoria Crater Part I and Part II are now online! The novella takes place in the desolate Martian frontier of Victoriaville, a brave community of settlers faces relentless threats from mercenary bandits working for a powerful Earth corporation, WTO. At the same time, life as a Martian teenager comes with some interesting challenges. This time, the light at the end of the tunnel comes with grim news – not only are the bad guys on their way, so are desperate refugees and a monstrous dust storm. Pete and Martin risk everything to rescue the plucky pioneers from certain doom. Martin learns in the grinding dust and darkness that victory is something you win, one step at a time.
"I want to grab them from the sky and throw them back to wherever." They have arrived. Are you ready? 🛸 It's time for something strange and unsettling. The highly anticipated sci-fi short film From Beyond is available to watch online now. This was initially teased last year with a trailer just before its Fantasia
With direction by Toshio Kawaguchi (an accomplished journeyman in the industry if there ever was one, with credits that run from Akira to Studio Ghibli to Neon Genesis Evangelion), Pluto tells the story of a robot detective named Gesicht and the wave of murders of robots and humans that he’s tasked with investigating....
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.
I'm really making my characters suffer in this one... 😳 After writing this scene, I've just considered what I've done to my main characters so far in this story. It's pretty brutal. And this isn't even supposed to be a horror...
Disney Moving On ‘Tron: Ares’; Joachim Rønning In Talks To Helm Jared Leto In Sci-Fi Sequel (www.inferse.com)
I'm really bummed about this. Jared Leto is a creep - the LAST person to be in a beloved scifi franchise, let alone Tron.
Indie Sci-Fi Film Freaks is Basically the Coolest X-Men Movie (That Isn’t Actually an X-Men Movie) (www.yahoo.com)
A granddad who can disappear; a long-missing mom who can fly. At first glance, the extraordinarily-abled outcasts whom society brands as dangerous in sci-fi movie Freaks (streaming here on Peacock!) seem to have a whole lot in common with the mutants of Marvel’s X-Men movie-verse — a resemblance that feels even more apt in...
The Longest Running Sci-Fi Series is Finally Streaming for Free (www.inverse.com)
After years of waiting, you can now dive into the archives of a sci-fi institution.
Robots, Wizards, Heroes, & Aliens: Contemporary Hollywood Auction, Part I (Evening Sale - Session I) (www.julienslive.com)
This auction has a crazy amount of Scifi movie memorabilia. Get the checkbook (and buy me something)!
Netflix handed a director millions to make a sci-fi series, but he squandered it on stocks, crypto, and flashy cars: NYT (www.msn.com)
Netflix gave Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of "47 Ronin," millions to produce a sci-fi series....
“We expand our understanding of what time travel is.” Creator Joe Barton and star Paapa Essiedu on The Lazarus Project Series Two (www.scifinow.co.uk)
Creator Joe Barton and star Paapa Essiedu take us on a time loop to delve into Season Two of The Lazarus Project
Dave Filoni Is Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm, Will Be ‘Planning the Future’ of ‘Star Wars’ Films and Shows (variety.com)
Dave Filoni is now Lucasfilm's chief creative officer for Star Wars.
Filmmakers, Please Make Your Rejected ‘Star Wars’ Pitches Into Non-‘Star Wars’ Movies (www.gq.com)
If Zack Snyder’s new movie, Rebel Moon, which opens mid-December and just released a trailer, looks a lot like a Star Wars movie, that’s not an accident. Snyder originally pitched it as one, and hasn’t been shy about admitting it....
Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary (youtu.be)
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first gam...
25 Years Later, the Writer of an Infamous Sci-Fi Flop Has a Dire Warning for Filmmakers (www.inverse.com)
1998's 'Godzilla' got a lot of things wrong. Here are five mistakes the writer says future filmmakers need to avoid repeating.
1 New Star Wars Movie Is Finally Delivering On The Biggest Promise Of Rian Johnson's Trilogy (screenrant.com)
Star Wars could use something fresh and new.
Doctor Who Showrunner Announces Controversial Change as It Joins Disney+ (movieweb.com)
Doctor Who enters a transformative era with Russell T. Davies at the helm, confirming its significant shift to Disney+ in 2024, a daring decision for the esteemed British science-fiction series. After reigning as a sci-fi TV favorite for sixty years, the series is making a comeback, complete with a significant alteration that...
Why Blade Runner's Original "Happy" Ending Includes Footage From An All-Time Iconic Horror Movie (screenrant.com)
Blade Runner has several different endings.
The 'Star Wars' species directly inspired by the Beastie Boys (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
J.J. Abrams once named a 'Star Wars' character as a reference to his love for the Beastie Boys and to his involvement in co-creating 'Lost.'
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise (www.newyorker.com)
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
The sci-fi movie Quentin Tarantino called "dumb" (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
While talking about the sci-fi genre and the films of directors like Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino named the popular sci-fi movie he calls "dumb".
Tubi and the Black List Want to Read Your Sci-Fi Screenplay (gizmodo.com)
Fox's ad-supported SVOD service is teaming up with writers' resource the Black List on the "To Be Commissioned" initiative.
Is time travel really possible? Here's what physics says (www.bbc.com)
The ability to jump forward and backwards in time has long fascinated science fiction writers and physicists alike. So is it really possible to travel into the past and the future?
Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic 3 Body Problem Pushed Back to March 2024, New Clip Revealed - IGN (www.ign.com)
3 Body Problem, the upcoming Netflix sci-fi epic from the creators of Game of Thrones and The Terror: Infamy, has been pushed back to March 2024.
Star Wars C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels is selling film memorabilia (www.bbc.com)
Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO, could sell the famous gold helmet he wore at auction for £1m.
‘Grok’: From 1960s Sci-Fi to Elon Musk’s New AI (www.msn.com)
Last weekend, Elon Musk announced that his artificial-intelligence startup, xAI, was launching a chatbot with “a bit of wit” and “a rebellious streak,” known as Grok. As Musk explained, Grok is modeled on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a snarky manual for interstellar travelers that the humorist Douglas Adams...
Murky reflections: why sci-fi needs to stop imitating Black Mirror (www.theguardian.com)
The success of the anthology series has led to a string of lesser copycat shows and films in a genre that needs to look beyond. If this sounds to you like the premise of a Black Mirror episode, you would be correct. That’s loosely the synopsis of Hang the DJ, the fourth installment of the British futurist anthology series’...
New Mexico Museum of Space History to kick off Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact exhibit (news.yahoo.com)
"We are opening up this 'Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact' exhibit and the idea is to go into some of the fun of exploring how science fiction has sometimes turned into science fact and how sci-fi has affected sci-fact. Basically, how they constantly influence each other," New Mexico Museum of Space History Executive Director Chris Orwoll said....
The "Bad Way" Wrath Of Khan Changed Star Trek Movies, Says First Contact Writer (screenrant.com)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is regarded as one of the best, if not the best, Star Trek movie of all, but Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore also points out the "bad way" Star Trek II impacted the movie franchise. Ricardo Montalbán played the titular, genetically engineered villain,...
Lena Headey's New Show Could Be the Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit of 2023 (www.inverse.com)
The Silo comparison isn’t unearned: Beacon 23 is based on a short story collection by Hugh Howey, who wrote the source material for Silo. The series follows a space lighthouse (Howey really has a thing for cylindrical buildings) and the various keepers who have lived there over the years. The first episode focuses on...
10 sci-fi concepts that are possible (in theory) (www.livescience.com)
Science fiction novels and movies are packed with far-out ideas, most often as the springboard for an action-packed adventure rather than a serious attempt to predict future trends in science or technology. Some of the most common tropes, such as accelerating a spacecraft to fantastic speeds in a matter of seconds without...
3 New Middle Grade Science Fiction Novels Disturb and Delight (www.nytimes.com)
Jeanne DuPrau’s “Project F,” Patricia Forde’s “The Girl Who Fell to Earth” and Donna Barba Higuera’s “Alebrijes” answer the question, Could this be the beginning of the end?
Avengers Endgame Killed The MCU - How Marvel's $2.8B Finale Broke Kevin Feige's Machine (screenrant.com)
After Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been the same, and there are some aspects of the movie that explain how it broke the universe. The latest of Marvel Studios' Avengers movies, 2019's Avengers: Endgame, is the biggest superhero movie of all time. The MCU was at the height of its popularity during...
🛸 SPACECRAFT SIZES seen in first person view! 🚀 (youtu.be)
Science fiction spaceships seen from a person's point of view. Want to see more ships? don't miss this comparison: https://youtu.be/tG8uC24Gbos≈ - Approximat...
Billy Dee Williams Had One Reservation About Playing Lando In Star Wars - /Film (www.slashfilm.com)
By the time Billy Dee Williams was approached to play Lando in the Star Wars franchise, he was concerned about being typecast as a 'romantic character.'
10 Things That Make No Sense About The Rebellion In Star Wars (screenrant.com)
The rebels were the original good guys of the Star Wars franchise who saved the galaxy from the evil Empire, but there are still things about the Rebellion that make no sense. Some flaws with the Rebel Alliance were always apparent from the start of the original trilogy, while other problems arose through subsequent sequels and...
Long Lost Model of the Star Trek: The Original Series Enterprise Has Potentially Been Found (www.tor.com)
Those of you who’ve watched Star Trek: The Original Series have likely feasted your eyes on an original three-foot model of the ship that has been missing for decades. Thanks to some Trekkie sleuth…
Watch: Fascinating Sci-Fi Short 'From Beyond' About Aliens on Earth | FirstShowing.net (www.firstshowing.net)
"I want to grab them from the sky and throw them back to wherever." They have arrived. Are you ready? 🛸 It's time for something strange and unsettling. The highly anticipated sci-fi short film From Beyond is available to watch online now. This was initially teased last year with a trailer just before its Fantasia
Netflix Just Quietly Released the Most Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Epic of the Year (www.inverse.com)
With direction by Toshio Kawaguchi (an accomplished journeyman in the industry if there ever was one, with credits that run from Akira to Studio Ghibli to Neon Genesis Evangelion), Pluto tells the story of a robot detective named Gesicht and the wave of murders of robots and humans that he’s tasked with investigating....
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Scrubbed From Apollo 13, Is Dead at 87 (www.nytimes.com)
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.
Apple's Unique New Movie Reveals Indie Sci-Fi's Biggest Flaw (www.inverse.com)
The battle between logic and instinct continues in this tender — yet overly timid and underbaked — love story.
41 Years Later, Star Trek Just Rebooted Its Most Infamous Sci-Fi Technology (www.inverse.com)
Over four decades later, the Genesis Device from 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' is back. Here's what it means for 'Lower Decks.'
After 43 Years, Star Wars Exposes the Full Extent of Lando's Betrayal of Han Solo (screenrant.com)
Lando's got some explaining to do...