Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

With only two weeks to go until Ultimate Avengers hits DVD shelves, the PR is going into overdrive and a couple of clips have been released exclusively on certain sites for Ultimate Avengers: The Movie.

Ultimate Avengers is loosely based on the Ultimates comic series and tells how Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Giant Man and Wasp formed the Avengers. The initial threat which forms the group is shape…

The other day I asked for feedback on the issue of full or partial feeds. There wasn’t much feedback and what little I got was pretty evenly split. So I’m running an experiment and instituting a full feed to see what if any difference it makes. Who knows, maybe I’ll get more readers.

As part of that I’ve moved the feed to a FeedBurner feed. You don’t need to update your…

Looks like another of the sci-fi shows that debuted at the beginning of this season is about to bite the dust. This time round it’s Surface which looks to be in serious trouble. Like The Night Stalker, Invasion and Threshold, Surface rode the wave of Lost’s success but was unable to capture the same sort of audience.

Surface will be ending its first season tonight after only 15 episodes. Which is…

Lucy Lawless, who has appeared twice in the seconds series of Battlestar Galactica will be returning for the upcoming third season of the SciFi Channel’s original series. Lawless will again play the role of D’Anna Biers, a television reporter who is also one of the human model Cylons.

Lawless will return as a recurring cast member for a ten episode arc in the third season of Battlestar Galactica. Her second guess…

I was reminded recently that I really hate time travel stories. Time travel is of course a staple of science fiction in books, movies and TV form. It’s rare indeed for a sci-fi show to avoid using some form of time travel. In fact the only one that springs to mind is Firefly.

Many movies have been built around time travel concepts and there are a number of science fiction classics…

Isn’t that typical. Its what all of a week since I posted that ABC was sticking with Invasion despite lackluster ratings. Even more recently, in a comment on this site I said Invasion was good till the end of the season but beyond that was up in the air. Wrong.

ABC Television has replaced Invasion on Wednesday nights with a new criminal procedure series called The Evidence. There hasn’t been any…

If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, you’re not using it so you can safely ignore this whole post. A couple of weeks ago I received a request to offer a full RSS feed instead of the current partial feed that the site offers.

Now the Wordpress blogging software that I use allows me to provide either full-feed or partial feed, but not both (at least not easily). My…

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s one of those things that’s so amazing that I have to talk about it again. On Saturday 4th February (today) a musical version of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien will begin its run in Toronto.

The show is being produced by Kevin Wallace and will include work by Finnish group Varttina and Indian composer A.R. Rahman. Previews begin today at…

Solar Flare got another new advertiser recently that I’ve been meaning to post a little something about. The Light of Alexandria is a little different to the usual stuff you see on this site for one very simple reason. It’s fact, not fiction.

James Maynard has written a book that covers the first thousand years of science in the ancient world. If you’ve taken any interest at all in either history…