If you are looking for some fun space reads during the holiday season, check out Jackie Kingon’s “science fiction comic mysteries”. She sent me the following excerpts of reviews for Chocolate Chocolate Moons: “Kingon’s prose is often as snappy as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Solar Sci-Fi
Here are the first three short films in a series underway at DUST called Glimpse, each offering a view of the impact of a future technology: ** “Circuits” If you could control all your devices from a tattoo on your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first four segments of a film series underway at DUST called: “Nikola Tesla and the End of the World“ by Ian Strang – ==== Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space.
Solar Sci-Fi (i.e. hard science fiction involving near-term scenarios within our solar system) has gone big time in the past few years with the major financial successes of the films Gravity and The Martian. The TV series The Expanse, which depicts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new selection of short films: ** Alientologists ** Robot & Scarecrow ** Human Interviews – Jessica Zollman ** The Stowaway ** AstroKnot ====
My sampling of the latest sci-fi short films from the DUST collection: ====
An announcement from the The Philip K. Dick Film Festival: THE 2018 PHILIP K. DICK SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SIXTH ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS The Three Day Gathering Honored Excellence of Independent Sci-Fi Cinema Actors Armand Assante, Charles Baker, Jonny Beauchamp, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Along with the Tesla Roadster launched yesterday into deep space by the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, there was a unique optical recording disk made of long lasting quartz. The Arch Mission Foundation disk contains a copy of the famous Foundation Trilogy books by Isaac […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Popular writer Ursula K. Le Guin, known particularly for her many works in science fiction and fantasy, passed away this week. A reader points me to this report from Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) about Le Guin: … Ursula K. Le Guin Remembered … […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 2018 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival —Announces Lineup Featuring Appearances by Armand Assante, Charles Baker, Vincent Pastore, Tom Sizemore, Melvin Van Peebles, Chuck Zito, And More Special Guests — — Oats Studios Presents Five Short Films by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s new book Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive, he looks at the impact of Star Trek and science fiction in general on technological innovation and development : Star Treknology: Imagining The Future […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently posted an item about the “new” sci-fi novel Pioneer by Robert Zimmerman. While Bob is best known as a space historian and journalist, he produced this work of fiction back in 1982 when he was just starting out on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space historian and journalist Bob Zimmerman has released a science fiction book called Pioneer, which he actually wrote in 1982 but it portrays a future of space settlement very relevant to what is happening in the space world today: Pioneer | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A selection of sci-fi film shorts: “The Secret Number” by Colin Levy – “A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four. Doctor Simon Tomlin, a psychiatrist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some sci-fi short films: ** On Sunday by David Lea – DUST ** Athena (Sci-Fi Action Short Film) by Andrew Kadikian – Rogue Division ** Hibernation by Jon Mikel Caballero – DUST ** Embers & Dust by Patrick Biesemans – DUST ====
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Announces Fifth Anniversary Event Over 100 Film Screenings, Premieres and Events Will Be Held May 25-30, 2017 — Festival Launches New Special Guest Panel Series PKD Talks: Conversations with Luminaries, Visionaries and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A selection of sci-fi short films: ** Caleb by Amanda Mesaikos & Susanne Aichele To contend with the bullies at school, 9-year-old Caleb decides to 3D print himself. Back home there’s confusion, discord and reshuffled schedules…But maybe this is just what his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent sci-fi short films from Dust: ** “Planet Unknown” by Shawn Wang Facing global resource depletion, mankind sends out Space Rovers to find potential inhabitable planet ** 2084 by Taz Goldstein In the year 2084, the fate […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A press release points me to The New York Sci Fi Film Festival being held this weekend: This Friday marks the inaugural launch of The New York Science Fiction Film Festival, a new cinematic event debuting January 20-22, 2017 with a highly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Three sci-fi short films each with a robot theme: [Previous film was removed at Youtube. So I’ve replaced it with this one.] [Updated this one with a new link at Youtube:] “Mysterious Planet – Azarkant”