I am totally in love with indie flick Socket, a kind of body horror/scifi tale of people who get addicted to electricity and mod their bodies to suck up current better. Apparently when you get struck with lightning (at least in this movie) you are left with a hunger for more. Unfortunately, the most pure [...]
This exclusive new preview clip for Battlestar Galactica season 4 reminds us why the science fiction series’ violent moral ambiguity has made it the most compelling political drama on TV. Sure the show is about humans fleeing for their lives from cyborgs in space, but it has a realistic, ripped-from-the-headlines urgency that 24 could only [...]
Most people who underwent cryosleep have reported that the mind seems to naturally retreat into a place of infinite tranquility, where the experience of Time itself is distorted in a subtle way.
Although there is no trace of conscious activity in the brain of sleepers, it appears that Experience itself never ceases, creating atemporals bubbles of [...]
What is it with the future and octagonal sheets?
It is a stylistic device in Battlestar Galactica …
And now it re-appears in Wired’s Artifacts from the Future:
I’m all for style, but this just seems not thought through. Octagonal sheets will take at least twice as much time to be cut, and will produce quite unnecessary waste [...]
At least in the sense I understand science fiction – which is probably more correctly described as a commentary on current society by extrapolating trends and meditating about their consequences, whether they may be good (as in StarTrek with its idealised, peaceful earth) or bad (as explored in the genre of cyberpunk).
Of course, this might exclude some other works – most notably the whole StarWars saga, which in my opinion resembles more a fantastic epos than anything else.
Welche Auseinandersetzungen – sei es um Wasser, Getreide, Lebensraum, Rohstoffe oder Energie – könnte ein globaler Temperaturanstieg von vier Grad Celsius in den kommenden 50 Jahren auslösen? Während zwischen Russland, Amerika und der Nato derzeit ein reichlich vordergründiger Streit um Abfangraketen und Mittelstreckenwaffen tobt, der sich aus Kalten-Kriegs-Denkmustern speist, haben die Sicherheitsstrategen in London, Washington [...]
Zufällig über FanPro LLC gefunden: Degenesis, ein Primal-Punk-Rollenspiel.
Looks like this is the next installment of BoingBoings seeminly neverending stream of Science Fiction novel recommendations: Peter Watts, who apparently writes gritty, dark and fast paced SF.