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Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
by Doc on Jun.18, 2002, under Books
Most of you have seen Armageddon – and probably a few of you like me scoffed at the realism. You’ve probably seen Deep Impact with a somewhat more realistic portrayal. Well, neither hold a candle to Lucifer’s Hammer, probably the most realistic portrayal of any “big rock hits Earth” movie. Read More.
Several sequels on the horizon?
by Doc on Jun.14, 2002, under Movies
SCI FI Wire ran a number of articles today revolving around several proposed sequels. The events of Sept. 11th have inspired Devlin and Emmerich to come up with ideas for a sequel to Independence Day (a.k.a. ID4), for which they never intended a sequel; Spielberg, despite saying earlier in the week that he isn’t interested in doing any more sequels, says he’s eager to do a Jurassic Park IV; and Tim Allen is up for doing a Toy Story 3, if a “corporate and business thing” can be worked out…
Encyclopedia of Known Space finished – for now
by Doc on Jun.14, 2002, under General News
I’ve finally put the last of the data into my Encyclopedia of Known Space, which indexes the people, places, and things found in Larry Niven’s Known Space universe. Stop by and check it out. Of course, I’ll be back to work on it once the still-planned Ringworld’s Child or Man-Kzin Wars X is published…
Update 6/16: Just got the following in e-mail: “Brian’s Known Space Encyclopedia is absolutely wonderful. I’ve moved it to
my “Favorites” list. Larry Niven”
Saturn Award winners
by Doc on Jun.11, 2002, under General News
The 2002 Saturn Awards were just given out – Cinescape is running the details. Quickie recap on the film side: A.I. got Best SF Film and Best Writing for Spielberg, and Haley Joel Osment got Brest Younger Actor; Best Actor went to Tom Cruise for Vanilla Sky, while his ex Nicole Kidman got best actress for The Others; Best Director went to Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which also won Best Fantasy Film and Best Supporting Actor thanks to Ian McKellan. On the TV side: Buffy for Best Network Series; Farscape for Best Syndicated/Cable series; Ben Browder (Farscape) and Yancy Butler (Witchblade) got Best Actor/Actress, and Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville) and Jolene Blalock (Enterprise) for Supporting roles.
Top 5 Cancelled Shows
by Doc on Jun.11, 2002, under Television
dugh daren writes “Revolution Science Fiction has an article covering thier list of the top five cancelled speculative fiction shows. I was pretty happy to see Space: Above and Beyond there!”
Babylon 5 DVD Season 1 Box Set due sometime in the Fall
by Doc on Jun.10, 2002, under General News
Well, the cat’s out of the bag. In a posting on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, a person for the National Captioning Institute was looking for references for spelling to be used in the forthcoming DVDs. JMS has since piped up and announced that it’s for real, and due sometime in the Fall, and will have extra goodies and even some commentaries by JMS (at least two, depending on time). Hopefully WB will make the official announcement soon so we can get pre-orders in.
Upcoming DVD releases
by Doc on Jun.08, 2002, under General News
Just pointing out some of the cool DVD releases coming up: June 11th brings us Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Second Season; on June 25th, Set 7 and Set 8 of Space: 1999 (which completes the series) and Farscape Season 2 Volume 1 (now a two disk set with 4 episodes); on July 2nd we get Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3; and on July 9th a new Farscape: Best of Season 1 collection of 6 episodes. Head on over to the Sci-Fi TV Store to pre-order from Amazon.com, and order other cool videos.
Stargate SG-1, Farscape premieres tonight
by Doc on Jun.08, 2002, under Television
Thank god for TiVo – the season premieres for for Stargate SG-1 (its sixth) and Farscape (its fourth) premiere tonight starting at 9pm on the SCI FI Channel; add in the freshman Jeremiah on Showtime, and its one busy night for the SF fan…
Titans remake; Rising Stars writers named
by Doc on Jun.04, 2002, under Movies
Two items of note today: Variety reported that a remake of Clash of the Titans is being penned by John Glenn and Travis Wright (Red World); and brothers Anthony and Joe Russo
(Welcome to Collinwood) have been named to write the screenplay adpatation of J. Michael Straczynski’s Top Cow comic Rising Stars.
Donate your brain to science
by Doc on Jun.04, 2002, under Science
Concerned Scientist writes “It’s not science fiction any more, scientists can take advantage
of your spare BRAIN power over the internet to advance science. Two heads are
better than one, and in the case of online, Internet-based psychology experiments,
many thousands of heads can rapidly speed the pace of science. The
American Psychological Society
is currently sponsoring a variety of quick and easy
online experiments
that range from simple and anonymous surveys to
interactive, graphical
experiments. Online experiments can provide an entertaining
way to spend a coffee break but can also teach you about the human brain;
each experiment provides a scientific explanation of the study once completed.
Donate your spare brain power today!”