Sci-Fi Storm

or rather, in Vulcan. Vulcan, Alberta, Canada, founded in the 1900s.

As I suggest in my blog entry (Your Child Can Be Born on Vulcan), wouldn’t it be totally cool for your child to be born in Vulcan? If you’re nine months pregnant, and healthy with it, and have the funds, why not give it a try?

Then, whenever your child is asked where he or she is from, they’ll be able to say with perfect truth, Vulcan.

Bill Warren is perhaps best known for his seminal books on science fiction movies of the 1950s, Keep Watching the Skies, first published in two volumes in the 1980s, recently released in an expanded and updated version.

Bill was kind enough to give our Matt Sanborn an interview:
Bill Warren Interview

Surfers, tourists, and local Los Angelenos alike were stunned yesterday morning by a rather HUGE mystery: the discovery of 15 foot long footprints in the sand at Santa Monica Pier!

A local fisherman was perhaps the only person who caught a glimpse of the creature responsible. “Everything started shaking,” he said. “Then I saw this thing. Bigger than any whale…eyes dark and menacing, teeth as big as the poles under the pier here.” Police are cautioning people not to panic, and to be careful not to fall into the deep footprints on the beach. Residents and tourists are wondering what kind of monster could be responsible for footprints so massive.

See photos at: http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/06/gigantic-footsteps-found-in-sand-at.html

The Thunder Child fantasy and science fiction webzine has established a new e-publishing arm, Sacred Poet Press. Our first book is From Forry Ackerman to Orson Welles: The Views and Reviews of Steve Vertlieb.

Check out all the details at: http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-forry-ackerman-to-orson-welles.html

Few TV shows have fans 40 years after they first aired. Star Trek is one… Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is another.

VTTBOTS expert Linda Delaney brings us tinto the world of the show, to find why this is so.

Check it out at http://volcanoseven.com/TheThunderChild/AmazonOnlyReady/VoyageCharacters.html

The fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, appeared in his first four-part serial, Robot, to inaugurate his new regeneration. For this first season, UNIT played a prominent role, and the Doctor had two companions, Ian Marter’s Harry Sullivan and Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith. It was novelized by Terrance Dicks as The Giant Robot, and it is this book that Tom Baker reads, for BBC Radio 7, in 5 parts.

You’ll find the URL here:
http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/04/tom-reads-terrance-dicks-giant-robot.html

I’ve been having fun creating ringtones (MP3 files) for The Avengers, Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

If you’d like to check out the selection, go to http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-is-voice-of-mysterons-ringtone.html.

I also take requests, from those series as well as Thunderbirds.

I was just told by Martin Grams today that Roy Thinnes has indeed contracted to appear at this convention in September.

Also at this convention, of interest to SF fans, will be Mark Goddard from Lost in Space and Van Williams of The Green Hornet. Roy Thinnes starred as David Vincent in the Invaders, and as Roger Collins in the 1992 Dark Shadows remake.

Check out the details here: http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/roy-thinnes-invaders-will-be-guest-at.html

The Thunder Child received a press release from Taverncraft, advertising their new line of “warsteins”, beer steins decorated with World of Warcraft themes. They attached photos of their whole line. The steins are scheduled to go on sale in April 2010.

If you’re interested in looking at the steins, http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-of-warcraft-decorative-steins.html

The Thunder Child’s new contributor, Matt Sanborn, has written one article and two reviews that I’d like to share iwht readers of Sci-Fi Storm.

Why We Love the Call of Cthulhu – an article on the Keepers and those who play this RPG – and why so many are so bad at it!
http://volcanoseven.com/TheThunderChild/CallofReviews/LoveCthulhu.html

Reviews of the first 2 comics in the 4-set release to coincide with The Crazies movie:
http://volcanoseven.com/TheThunderChild/CallofReviews/Crazies1and2.html

A review of Peter Brother’s “Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men”: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda”
http://volcanoseven.com/TheThunderChild/CallofReviews/IshiroHondaReview.html

Please read and enjoy