Tag Archives: Science Fiction

10 + 11

19th
May. × ’13

The BBC claims that this clip is a thank-you gift for fans who were mistakenly sent the Doctor Who season finale and didn’t reveal any spoilers. I rather suspect that this clip was already filmed and scheduled to be released pretty soon anyway. In any case, most of the season finale’s plot twists have been [...]

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KSR FTW

19th
May. × ’13

Congratulations to Kim Stanley Robinson, whose novel 2312 – which is set in a libertarian-socialist future of Mondragon cooperatives that is sort-of connected to his Mars books – has just won the Nebula award.

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Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young

17th
May. × ’13

I just got back from seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness. I’m a bit surprised at some of the lackluster reviews it’s been getting, because I thought it was pretty good. I do have some quarrels with it, but I can’t really go into them without spoilers, so I’ll save that discussion for a later date. [...]

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Riddick Meets Starbuck

15th
May. × ’13

Post title says it all:

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Absentee Tennant

15th
May. × ’13

Steven Moffat reveals how the Amy Pond storyline would have gone if David Tennant had stayed on for another year.

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An Aegis Very Essential

14th
May. × ’13

I’m ambivalent about this. One the one hand, it’s a Marvel comics series starring Agent Coulson. On the other hand, it’s glorifying the very sorts of organisations that are horribly evil and destructive in real life; and the scene where Coulson appears to be renditioning an internet rebel does not exactly warm my heart. I’ll [...]

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