Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

The Stone of Farewell is book two of Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn fantasy sequence. I was fairly impressed by book one, The Dragonbone Chair, so could Williams maintain the quality for the second book?

Well his writing is certainly as skillful as ever, unfortunately the slow pace of the first part of The Dragonbone Chair returns in The Stone of Farewell and it doesn’t speed up. There’s a lot of redundancy…

The Comics Continuum has posted a picture they received from the studio which clearly shows Spider-man wearing a black costume. If there was any doubt at all, it’s removed by the text that the studio sent with the image.

“You may think you’re looking at a black and white photo. Look closely, Spider-Man wears a black suit in Spider-Man 3. Tobey Maguire returns in the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man…

I’m trying something different this week and whether I keep doing it really depends on the response I get. In the past I’ve tried writing weekly reviews of new episodes but I rarely have enough to say about a single episode to justify a few review. So instead I thought I’d just throw out some random comments on the episode and encourage everyone else to post their thoughts on it…

Many months ago I reported that the people behind Show Time’s Masters of Horror anthology series were working on a similar show with a science fiction theme. Variety is now reporting that that show, which goes by the title Masters of Science Fiction has been picked up by no less than ABC.

ABC has ordered four episodes of Masters of Science Fiction, but IDT and Industry Entertainment plan to produce at…

It seems that the eternal battle between good and evil is getting another go around courtesy of the DVD Demon Hunter. Starring Sean Patrick Flannery, William Bassett and Billy Drago, Demon Hunter is about a member of a covert Church-authorized society dedicated to fighting Satanic forces.

When the archdemon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) starts impregnating prostitutes, Jacob “Jake” Greyman (played by Sean Patrick Flannery) teams up with Collen Porch to attempt to…

Considering how popular the books are I’m sure there are a lot of people who are very interested in the movie adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon. So here are a couple of the pictures which have recently turned up on the net.

Eragon is directed by Stefen Fangmeier and stars Ed Speleers, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, Robert Carlyle, Sienna Guillory and will hit theaters on December 15th 2006. Keep…

The CW Network (which replaces UPN and the WB this fall) has just announced some significant recasting for their new Aquaman TV show (apparently going by the title of Mercy Reef these days). Actor Justin Hartley has been signed to play the part of A. C. Curry who’s alter ego is Aquaman.

When the WB initially ordered up the pilot of the Aquaman show, the role was asigned to actor Will…

So I’m two days late on this, cut me some slack I spent half of my weekend working. Anyway turns out that Warner Brothers have released a full trailer for their Philip K Dick movie adaptation A Scanner Darkly. Try to put aside (at least for the moment) that it’s yet another genre movie starring Keanu Reeves.

The movie is supposed to be a pretty accurate version of Dick’s story and…