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SciFi

Futurama’s good news

Sci-fi TV show Futurama is to return.

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 10 June 2009 0 comments

Futurama bends back

Oh, excellent news: one of my favourite TV shows, Futurama, is making something of a return. Cult cartoon Futurama is coming back later this year as a full-length film. The movie, Bender’s Big Score, will be available to buy on November 27 as a high-definition DVD, and will be followed by three other feature-length movies. [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 1 August 2007 0 comments

Stargate S8 musings (spoilers)

Spoilers below. Be warned. I like watching Sci-Fi on TV, and have long enjoyed Stargate SG1. After seeing most of the first 7 series on TV I gradually bought the DVD sets. Then about a year ago I bought Season 8. Somehow between being busy and temporarily going ‘off’ Stargate I hadn’t got around to [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 18 July 2007 0 comments

The long of it – 2001, Happy Feet, Babel

I’ve always been a sci-fi fan. In my youth I read my way through a lot of sci-fi until it seemed only bug-eyed monsters were left, and then stopped for quite a while. I definitely read Arthur C Clarke, and indubitably 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I dimly recall really enjoying. I’m sure I also [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Arts, movie and performance 10 January 2007 0 comments

Half a million for a prop

As a kid I watched Star Trek (The Original Series) and loved it. I’m still very fond of the various Star Trek series and sci-fi in general. This year is the 40th anniversary of Star Trek and with no new series in production it seems they decided to auction off a whole lot of props. [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 10 October 2006 0 comments

Enjoying good friends

The upside of the current dearth of decent programmes on TV is that I’ve turned to my collection of DVDs for entertainment. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been reacquainting myself with random episodes of Xena and Voyager, and finally making a start on Season 5 of Babylon 5. Ahhhh. The fun of Xena: [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 23 September 2006 0 comments

Dead trees in space

Recently, for the first time in a very long while, I had the urge to do some dead-tree reading. I wanted quality writing, space sci-fi, strong female lead character. I haven’t really read any sci-fi for years, apart from some Babylon 5 and Voyager novels, based around the TV series. Some of them have been [...]

Read the full article ⍾ SciFi 31 May 2006 7 comments