Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows. ZOMG YES on Resnick!
How did I not think to suggest those myself?! There's also a sequel to Santiago called, "Return of Santiago". And the Soothsayer trilogy (Soothsayer, Oracle, Prophet). Couldn't recommend a book, but if you fancy a TV show in the mould of B7, you can't get better than Farscape... Slight tangent, but why in this era of utterly pointless remakes, can we not have a B7 remake? Stop remaking great films that just happened to be subtitled, stop remaking excellent movies with perfectly adequate effects from 20 years back. I have a show for you, it was edgy, a bit grim but still hugely popular but it's budget of..say, 50 quid an episode was a real problem.. Agreed on Farscape, it's the closest thing available. The problem with it specifically, is that as far as genre programming on the BBC, if it's not Saturday teatime fare like Dr Who or Being Human, or relatively cheap to make adult urban supernatural shows like Being Human or The Fades, nobody seems to be interested.
This is awesome News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. The Good: AMAZING effects and character design!
The battle droids actually *looked* like devices built for live combat situations—heavily-armoured, heavily-ARMED, and just...heavy! The Bad: 1) WHEN will people finally drop the completely stupid "careful withdrawal of consciousness from virtual environment" trope? The rig on the interrogator's head is clearly a simple noninvasive magnetic-resonance device stimulating parts of his brain. You know how you "withdraw" from such an interface? 2) If a battle bot has some way of overloading its batteries or onboard generator to generate an EMP, IT WILL FRY ITSELF IN THE PROCESS. I know, I know, I'm a nitpicking geek...but, really, what's the excuse for complete scientific illiteracy in so-called "sci-fi" film-making?
SF Signal – A Speculative Fiction Blog. Brave New Worldview – 30 Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century - Row Three. A decade into the 21st Century and we have arrived at the future.
The promise of Tomorrow. But instead we have looming energy crises, endless middle east conflict and more disappointing, we have no flying cars, Heck, for all the bright and clean future promised in 2001: A Space Odyssey, none of the real companies used as brands in the film even exist anymore. Even moving from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, nobody makes DeLoreans (although they occasionally sell on Ebay), but cloning and tablet computing (as promised by Star Trek: The Next Generation) have more or less come to pass in this century. It is not the gizmos or the distopian aesthetics, that have brought Science Fiction into the new millennium, but the questions it asks of people or society in a future time or place and how they reflect on our own times. There have been a surprising number of excellent science fiction films to come about in the past decade that do this and do this well.
The Fountain 28 Weeks Later The Host.