Archive for Solar Sci-Fi

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May23

The Rocket Company: Chapters 6-9

by TopSpacer on May 23, 2013 at 5:00 am
Posted In: Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz.  This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: Updated Forward  […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May22

Video: “Europa Report” trailer

by TopSpacer on May 22, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

The first trailer for the upcoming “hard sci-fi” film Europa Report , about a human mission to the Jupiter moon Europa, has been released: Phil Plait has seen the whole film and likes it: Europa Report trailer: Sci-fi movie with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May21

Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival – Lille, France, Oct.25-27, 2013 – now accepting submissions

by TopSpacer on May 21, 2013 at 1:47 am
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts, Space films and videos

An announcement from the The Philip K. Dick Film Festival: The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival Sets Dates For First International Event New York City’s First Official Sci-Fi Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions And Expands To France […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May21

“The Left Hand of Darkness” goes on stage

by TopSpacer on May 21, 2013 at 12:28 am
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts

A reader points me to a dramatization of  Ursula K. Le Guin‘s famous 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The Hand2mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse in Oregon have brought the novel to the stage :  Sci-Fi Author, Ursula La […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May10

Trailer for “Gravity” – film with George Clooney & Sandra Bullock

by TopSpacer on May 10, 2013 at 4:06 am
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

The movie Gravity stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts on the International Space Station. An accident leaves them stranded. The first trailer for the film has jut been released.  ‘Gravity’ Trailer: Watch George Clooney Get Lost In Space […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May09

The Rocket Company: Chapters 4-7

by TopSpacer on May 9, 2013 at 5:57 am
Posted In: Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

I continue the serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz.  This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book: Updated Forward  […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr25

Starship Century Symposium 2013 – May 21 – 22, UC San Diego

by TopSpacer on April 25, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Events, Solar Sci-Fi, Space Systems

Here’s an announcement for the Starship Century Symposium 2013: Starship Century Is this the century we begin to build starships? Why go to the Stars? Can we? Should We? May 21 – 22, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr21

TV sci-fi in a rut + More on exoplanet naming

by TopSpacer on April 21, 2013 at 12:43 am
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space participation, Space TV

The creator of Babylon 5 talks about the state of TV science fiction: Babylon 5′s J. Michael Stracynski explains why most TV scifi is awful – i09.com === Alan Boyle revisits the exoplanet naming controversy: Who gets to name alien […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr16

Kickstarter: Making a movie of a Harry Harrison novel + Sending your face to space

by TopSpacer on April 16, 2013 at 8:31 pm
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos, Space participation

A reader points me to a couple of space related Kickstarter campaigns. In this project, the creator of movies Repo Man and Sid & Nancy will direct “a feature comedy based on Harry Harrison’s classic anti-war science fiction novel”: Alex […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr16

Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival – accepting submissions

by TopSpacer on April 16, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Posted In: Solar Sci-Fi, Space films and videos

An announcement from the Philip K. Dick Film Festival: The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions For Second Annual Event New York City’s First Official Sci-Fi Film Festival Expands Film Slate For Upcoming Domestic and International […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb22

Kickstarting a graphic novel version of Heinlein’s “Citizen of the Galaxy”

by TopSpacer on February 22, 2013 at 8:58 pm
Posted In: Activism, Solar Sci-Fi

A crowd-funding campaign has been opened to fund a graphic novel version of Robert A. Heinlein‘s book Citizen of the Galaxy first published in 1957: Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy Graphic Novel by Eric Gignac — Kickstarter Citizen […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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