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Discworld. Isaac Asimov. Spacejetters - free wallpapers - 3D sci-fi & fantasy art. Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park (film) The Lost World (Crichton novel) Simultaneously, another group—geneticist Lewis Dodgson, Howard King and George Baselton—also go to Isla Sorna, with plans to steal dinosaur eggs for Biosyn, the rival company of InGen, the company that created Jurassic Park.

The Lost World (Crichton novel)

On the way to the island, Sarah Harding, an animal behaviorist who has worked in the African savanna, is on her way to meet with Dr. Thorne and Malcolm when she encounters Dodgson and his party. Dodgson at first dismisses Sarah until she reveals she is trying to make her way to Isla Sorna. The Lost World: Jurassic Park. After the original book's release and the first film's success, Crichton was pressured not only by fans, but Spielberg himself, for a sequel novel.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

After the book was published in 1995, production began on a film sequel. The Lost World's plot and imagery is substantially darker than the previous film. Despite mixed reviews, it was a box office success, grossing $618 million worldwide. Plot[edit] A British family is on a yacht cruise near Isla Sorna. Ian meets the other two members of the team: equipment specialist and engineer Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), and video documentarian Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn).

Jurassic Park III. Plot[edit] Despite deadly and dangerous incidents being connected with Isla Sorna, tourists Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby decide to parasail around the island.

Jurassic Park III

A dinosaur of unknown species attacks and kills the crew, but Ben uncouples the line and they go sailing into the wilderness of Isla Sorna. Meanwhile, Dr. Alan Grant has become famous as a result of his survival and involvement in the scandal of Jurassic Park and subsequent dinosaur attacks. Ellie Sattler has married a lawyer named Mark Delger and has a son, Charlie, who calls Alan "The Dinosaur Man" and a baby daughter whose name is unknown. Alan learns that the Kirbys plan to land on the island, which contradicts what they had promised earlier. Alan demands an explanation about what is really going on and the Kirbys confess they're actually a middle-class divorced couple who are using their life savings to look for their lost son, Eric, who vanished with Ben eight weeks ago near Isla Sorna. Your Complete Guide to Stargate! Stargate Atlantis. Series overview[edit] Seasons 1–3[edit] Seasons 4–5[edit] Season 4 cast from left to right: Dr.

Stargate Atlantis

Rodney McKay, Col. Samantha Carter, Lt. Season four premiered in the USA on September 28, 2007,[4] and in the UK on October 9, 2007. Cast[edit] Stargate Universe. Premise[edit] The Stargate program has founded Icarus base on a remote planet whose Stargate is powered by large naquadria deposits throughout the core.

Stargate Universe

The team, led by Dr. Nicholas Rush, postulate that the power from that core could allow them to use a 9-chevron code to "dial" into the Stargate, allowing them access to locations far remote from their galaxy, but lack the means to translate the writing of the Ancients to understand how to dial this properly. Dr. Rush designs a video game used across Earth to find brilliant minds to interpret the puzzle, which Eli Wallace, a young mathematics genius, is able to solve. Dr. As the rest of the team works to make the ship hospitable, Dr. Cast[edit] Robert Carlyle as Nicholas Rush – The "ship's brilliant Machiavellian scientist"[9] whom producer Joseph Mallozzi had first mentioned in his blog in mid-November 2008 as Dr. The Star Trek Top 100. The year 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of Star Trek and since Paramount has accidentally fucked up Star Trek for the time being, it's up to we the fans to make tribute to the greatest science fiction legacy of the 20th century.

The Star Trek Top 100

That's right, I didn't stutter. Star Trek is the science fiction that Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and all the series that came after it dreams that they could be. So, today at the crap factory, we're counting down the best 100 stories every to come from the final frontier in the first four decades of Star Trek's existence. Cygnus Alpha (blakes 7) Blakes7 - www.blakes-7.co.uk - Louise and Simon's Blake's 7 Fan Site.

Wolfevents Conventions. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)

The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired. The film and series were developed by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, based upon the character Buck Rogers created in 1928 by Philip Francis Nowlan that had previously been featured in comic strips, novellas, a serial film, and on television and radio.[1]