Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Stargate: SG-1 always had season defining elements, Atlantis is a much more stand alone show. They are conscious of continuity, but on the whole the shows don’t build up over the episodes to an inevitable confrontation. That can be a good or a bad thing.

The Daedalus Variations is the sort of episode that works well standing alone and since there’s no larger storyline that I’m eager to see resolved in…

One of the great things about the internet is how easy it is to get in touch with people who have similar interests to you. Obviously if you’ve found this site you’re familiar with looking for news/information on the internet. But what about disussion?

I’m not talking about forums, although they can be great fun for a casual chat too. I’m thinking more along the lines of book clubs where people…

Unholy Domain is a sequel to Dan Ronco’s previous book Peacekeeper, but you don’t have to have read that to read this. I hadn’t and it all made sense. If I had to sum up Unholy Domain in a soundbite I would probably say Tom Clancy meets William Gibson.

In 2022 and the world is sinking into a massive depression. After the death and chaos caused by the Peacemaker virus in…

Image via WikipediaHow do you encapsulate a genre in ten books? Well you can’t really. So let me admit from the outset that this list of ten books is quite arbitrary and the number has more to do with the fact that I don’t want to spend the next two weeks writing this post. But for all that, the books I’m about to list are well worth reading and fine…

In a way this is the end of an era for New Who. Russell T. Davies was the architect of the Doctor’s return and his footprints are all over the last four seasons of the show, for good or bad. It’s fascinating to watch him try to link together as many threads from those seasons as possible in Journey’s End.

To make it that little bit more special we got an…

Eureka returns for a third season with Bad To The Drone. The nice thing about this show is that it’s much more light hearted than most science fiction. Thats probably why it attracts such a large audience.

This episode quickly re-establishes the cast regulars and the status quo with a couple of conversations and then moves rapidly on to the week’s crisis when the “fixer” arrives to sort out Global…

The 2008 Science Fiction Poetry Association Poetry Contest is now open for entries. There’s no entry fee and a wide variety of prizes are available for entrants. The top three entries will be published on the website and you are allowed up to three entries.

The prizes are as follows:

1st Prize: $100 cash, SFPA Website Publication, Waterman pen and journal, A signed hardcover copy of The Journey to Kailash by Mike Allen,…

Avengers: The Initiative #15
Writers: Dan Slott & Christos N. Gage
Artist: Harvey Tolibao
Publisher: Marvel

The Secret Invasion tie ins just keep coming. I liked this one though. Slott had shown us there was a Skrull in the Initiative months ago and finally we get to see what he’s up to. Skrulls have often been portrayed in a rather one dimensional manner so its nice to see a bit of depth to their…

Warren Ellis made an interesting post recently about the health of the science fiction short story magazines (and as a result of the short story market).

No huge surprises, the magazines are in decline. Actually they haven’t declined nearly as badly this years as in recent years, but that might be because all that’s left is the hardcore audience.

There are some obvious problems with that of course. First off if the…

At the San Diego Comic-Con, the Star Wars spoof Padmé won the George Lucas Selects Award beating out forty other finalists.

The movie is a parody of Juno but using characters from Star Wars creating a wry mix of teen dialog and the Dark Side of the Force complete with Star Wars versions of Juno’s songs.

Produced by Jason Ginsburg, Robert Reeves and Kevin Walsh, the movie has been a fan favorite…