TheoHuxtable.. Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Watched this a couple nights ago. Despite the reviews, it held my interest. Then again I just wanted to see a sci-fi mystery/thriller and wasn't expecting anything great. 7 out of 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 ^ I watched it, but about 2 weeks prior to that I watched that movie with Keanu Reeves as the alien who comes to save planet earth ... fuck is it called again ? The Day the Earth Stood Still .... while the stories were slightly different it was pretty much the same movie I watched this (again) the other night: which is a fucking awesome movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 Starship Troopers is a dope movie. Some real good fucking humor and satire in as well. I always dug watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dranx0 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Watched this a couple nights ago. Despite the reviews, it held my interest. Then again I just wanted to see a sci-fi mystery/thriller and wasn't expecting anything great. 7 out of 10 we'll see this soon. Heard it was good from people at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 ok so admittedly some books get me riled up .. p.s my friend is telling me stories right now of growing up around the corner of nena in germany the chick that did 99 red balloons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable.. Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 ^ I watched it, but about 2 weeks prior to that I watched that movie with Keanu Reeves as the alien who comes to save planet earth ... fuck is it called again ? The Day the Earth Stood Still .... while the stories were slightly different it was pretty much the same movie I watched this (again) the other night: which is a fucking awesome movie. Awesome movie, but part 2 sucked (it was like 1/10th the budget of part 1). And I'm assuming part 3 sucked as well, as I've never seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted August 19, 2009 Author Share Posted August 19, 2009 Didn't know they took it to part 3. Part 2 saw once and could care less for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 Haven't actually gone through this site just yet, but it looks interesting: http://freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 http://www.mangavolume.com/dominion-tank-police/chapter-dominion-tank-police-1/ or http://manga.animea.net/dominion-tank-police.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dranx0 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 In the current issue of Z Magazine, there is an article titled: SCI-FI: Think Galacticon by Mitchell Szczepanczyk Report from a conference mixing science fiction with left politics "Science fiction has been many different things to many people. It has been a form of crass escapism from the drudgery of... " Just a 1 1/2 page article describing how Science Fiction inspired the research of new science and new technology. And anarchists and superheroes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hey Dranxo, can you post the article here.. I don't wanna sign up for that site just yet.. Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dranx0 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hey Dranxo, can you post the article here.. I don't wanna sign up for that site just yet.. Thanks.. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Sorry for the dead end link. I'm too paranoid to post it here. I'll start hearing helicopters outside. check PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 For my geeks and freaks: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/18/hg-wells-anniversary HG Wells anniversary ignites celebrations The inaugural HG Wells festival, a new literary prize and a search giant combine to ensure that the author of the War of the Worlds is no longer the invisible man What's your favourite HG Wells film adaptation? * Buzz up! * Digg it * Alison Flood * guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 September 2009 00.32 BST * Article history HG Wells No longer the invisible man ... the author HG Wells. Photograph: Corbis Science fiction might be overlooked for the Booker prize, but the father of the genre, HG Wells, finds his reputation on the rise, with a literary award and a festival launched on the anniversary of his birth – as well as a nod of the head from the search giant Google. The author of science fiction classics The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, Wells lived in Sandgate, just outside Folkestone, for 13 years. The area was a literary hub at the time, with Joseph Conrad nearby in Postling, Henry James in Rye and The Railway Children author Edith Nesbitt in Dymchurch. Wells left Sandgate for London in 1909 after the publication of his feminist novel Ann Veronica was greeted with scandal, and one hundred years after his departure, local residents have decided to hold a festival "in honour of his genius". Visitors at the inaugural HG Wells festival enjoyed talks about the author, an exhibition of pictures and art work inspired by Wells's The Sea Lady and a guided walk around Folkestone in the footsteps of one of his greatest creations, the draper Arthur Kipps. The festival also saw the launch of the first HG Wells literary prize for a short handwritten story in the style of Wells, won by 13-year-old William Jarrett. The prize is the bequest of Sandgate resident Reginald Turnill, the BBC aerospace correspondent who gave an eyewitness broadcast from Nasa of the moon landing. Turnill, author of H G Wells, Love & Literature in Sandgate, 1896-1909, interviewed Wells in the 1930s, and remembers his "squeaky voice". According to Simon J James, editor of The Wellsian and senior lecturer in Victorian literature at Durham university, Wells's reputation is gradually recovering from the scorn heaped upon him by modernist critics such as Virginia Woolf. "He is seen as an important writer, more so now than a few decades ago," he said. For James, Wells's greatest achievement was not his science fiction but his straightforward realist fiction, such as Tono-Bungay, which he said was "one of the great Edwardian novels", and which he teaches alongside EM Forster's Howards End at Durham. "I started looking at HG Wells because of my interest in early 20th century realism in fiction – and if you're interested in realism, you've got to be interested in Wells." Google, however, has been focusing strictly on the science fiction element of Wells's writing, teasing internet conspiracy theorists with a series of unexplained Google doodles leading up to today's celebration of his birthday. In a post on the Google blog, Micheal Lopez acknowledged the reason for the doodles, with "an official nod to Herbert George, who would be 143 years old today," Last Tuesday, the search engine tweeted the coordinates "51.327629, -0.5616088", which led followers to Horsell Common in Woking, Surrey, made famous in 1898 by Wells in The War of the Worlds as the scene for the first Martian landing. "A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather," Wells wrote. "A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 does HG Wells have a "novel" (not short story/collection of short stories") to his accreditation? or any other awesome american authors who write scifi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 So I just finished up: Good Old Fashioned Future.. Good read.. Most of the stories were cool and somewhat related to each other.. Starting on Distraction now and so far I'm digging it. For some reason I can't finish up Diamond Age.. Never really go into the book and couldn't tell you what is going on it.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 not really sure where this would be but its from the same author as doom generation. just picked it up from a thrift store Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted September 24, 2009 Author Share Posted September 24, 2009 Do report back when you're done.. That cover alone would make me buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 can do.. i needed to take a reading break after going on a dune binge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 I finished up Distraction and that was a damn good read. I'm definitely a Sterling fan now. Started reading a collection of Ray Bradbury stories and the dude is still bad ass to me. I also just finished watching "The Lathe of Heaven".. Good movie. The DVD also has an interview with the author of the book the movie was based on. I'm definitely gonna be picking up some of her books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim540 Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 was fucking amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 Yes it was. I actually would like to watch the new series that came out. Speaking of which... Is the new "V" series still on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2010/01/07/more-science-fiction-covers/ http://ubdigit.buffalo.edu/cdm4/results.php?&CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=thumb&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;identi,A,1;collea,A,0;publis,200,0;none,A,0;20;identi,none,none,none,none&CISOBIB=identi,A,1,N;collea,A,0,N;publis,200,0,N;none,A,0,N;none,A,0,N;20;identi,none,none,none,none&CISOTHUMB=20%20%284x5%29;title,author,publia,subjea,subjeb&CISOTITLE=20;identi,none,none,none,none&CISOHIERA=20;collea,identi,none,none,none&CISOSUPPRESS=1&CISOTYPE=browse&CISOROOT=%2FLIB-001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 as much as people may disagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 This movie. When the end credits started to roll, I realized I had just seen a typical hollywood-type movie without realizing it myself. Of course the overall look and creative details were relatively fresh, but deep down the movie was just the type of hollow entertainment I've been avoiding for years. However the special effects, scenery etc. were so cool I didn't care. This usually isn't enough for me, but this time the notion of Good Scifi (= DIY alien weapons/tech) overpowered all the other factors, including the pseudo-polemic race/species issue and documentary-style intro/epilogue. Placing the whole thing in Johannesburg was also a clever way of selling "avant-garde sci-fi" to the audiences. Although the story revolved around just a couple of characters and their "emotion acting" I found the film entertaining as if it was done by Sci-fi enthusiasts. One thing I found lousy in the film was the main character's interaction with the aliens. It seemed as if he was just acting in a bluescreen environment without counterpart interaction. In very few scenes both the alien and the dude were observing each other in a credible manner. This kind of inconsistency tends to burst the illusion of the cinematic story. A valid problem to be tackled in the art of cinema in the future I believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Just got through watching The Hidden. Definitely recommended for my fellow geeks. Especially liked that it featured Concrete Blonde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assface713 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 NAW NOWHERE BY GREGG ARAKI HAD ONLY TIDBITS OF SCIFI ..IT WAS MOSTLY A DRUG FEST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Haha, still worth a read though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 yea, i recomend it . been on a franz kafka binge of late though. chicks dig colored guys that read kafka at the beach...my vagina intake went up 0.34 as of this week. and dude i cant even keep up with you and earl in the mixtrader thread..so much good stuff was put up i havnt even gotten around to listening to half of the most recent mixes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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