Sci-Fi Storm

Sir Fred Hoyle, a British astronomer and author (including some SF novels), died August 20th in England. Hoyle came up with the phrase “Big Bang”, even though he did not believe in the theory.

I have decided to let the public view an early edition of my next project, The Encyclopedia of Known Space, based on the universe of Larry Niven. It is very incomplete – I’m going through story my story, and thus far have only incorporated one collection and working on the second. But there is still some good stuff in there…let me know if there are any blatant errors.

Oops…the link is in there now…bad Mozilla… :^)

I’ve added The Starlost (for those that might actually want to watch this long lost series) and The X-Files (complete season sets only) to the Sci-Fi TV Store…

The Popcorn.co.uk site is reporting that Tom Cruise may spoof his Mission Impossible character in Austin Powers 3, and that Mike Myers may be looking to have former James Bond actor Sean Connery play Power’s father…

The Sci Fi Channel has announced that it will rerun episodes of its top-rated series Farscape at 8pm Monday-Thursday, starting August 27th.

I’ve opened up a Sci-Fi Television Store to gather up the DVDs available at Amazon not already covered by the Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 stores, and the first two shows to be listed are Farscape and the venerable Space: 1999. Expect more soon…let me know what other shows should be included here.

According to an interview in the British newspaper Independent (and captured through Sci Fi Wire), Burton would rather “…jump out a window, I swear to God,” than make a sequel to the monkey-money Planet of the Apes. Seems he isn’t keen on the studio managment system…

In a story at Cinescape Online, JMS stated that he’s turned in the fourth draft of the Rising Stars screenplay, adapted from the first 8 issues of his comic book series. MGM in a press conference stated that it is on the slate for 2002.

Oh, and the trade version of the first 8 issues is available at Amazon.com.

The SCI FI Channel has just picked up it’s third first-run MGM series. Stargate SG-1, currently in its 5th season on Showtime and in syndication for seasons one through four, will have it’s 6th season on SCI FI, with production starting in January 2002. SCI FI will also rerun previous seasons during the week starting late in 2002.

Set 4, which concludes the entire first season, is now available for Space: 1999. It includes a Season One documentary and six episodes including “Dragon’s Domain” – that creature gave me nightmares back then…

Set 1,
Set 2, and
Set 3 are also available. I’ll be putting together a “Cult TV” DVD store when I get a chance…

Update 8/20: Space: 1999 and Farscape are the first two shows available via the Sci-Fi TV Store…