Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

I’ve created a Knol on Science Fiction and I’m looking for people to help me edit and revise it.

Knols are a new Google concept and are intended to be comprehensive articles on a particular subject. I have created a basic outline but I am looking for people to help me populate it with key information on authors, movies, awards and other key information about the science fiction genre.

I’ve set…

Tarun Durga tells me that over at Idea Jugglers there is an exclusive podcast of Orson Scott Card reading an excerpt from his upcoming novel Ender in Exile.
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Ender in Exile is the latest book in Scott Card’s critically acclaimed and hugely popular Ender series. The new book has a release date of November 11th 2008 and not much is known about the plot. It is set 400 years…

I’d seen trailers for this episode of Stargate Atlantis, and they weren’t very inspiring. It’s a pretty hackneyed idea after having someone be taken over by an alien plant. But let’s not rush to judgement. Old ideas can still be done in interesting ways.

I think putting Woolsey in charge of Atlantis could lead to some interesting internal conflicts which this show will benefit from. Often the Atlantis team is just…

This one will ruffle some feathers. Okay full disclosure. I’m British. I live in America but I spent the first 28 years of my life in Scotland so I am unquestionably British. Maybe I’m biased.

But I’m not wrong.

Even Britain’s obscure or failed science fiction shows have a greater range and imagination than the majority of the scifi output from American television. I don’t think the distinction is nearly so clear…

A little while back I posted the teaser trailer for Twilight, a movie based on the best selling novels of Stephenie Meyer. Twilight is a vampire story with a twist, these particular vampires don’t want to pray on people.

The movie stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and is directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg.

Well now I have several stills from the upcoming movie and a second…

In previous seasons we’ve had episodes that are Doctor and companion “light” in order to give the stars a little recovery time. This season they took a slightly different approach so this week we get a Donna “light” episode and next week it will be a Doctor “light” episode.

We’re also now at the start of a short run of episodes by Russell T. Davies to round out the season. That…

Orbit Books is releasing the following novels in the US during the month of August:

• Path of Revenge by Russell Kirkpatrick
  Seventy years after the conclusion of the Faltha War, three great continents — and their gods— are again at war for truth and immortality.
• Warrior by Marie Brennan
  Mirage, a bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. But her new mission will take her into…

Amazing Spider-man #566
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
Artist: Phil Jimenez
Publisher: Marvel

It’s a risky move doing a sequel to one of the classic Spider-man stories. I’m actually not that big a fan of Kraven’s Last Hunt myself, but it is very highly regarded. I quite like the idea of someone targeting Spider-man but actually getting his friend instead. Peter Parker borrowing Daredevil’s uniform was an amusing moment too. All in all Kraven’s First Hunt…

If you’ve read this blog for more than a couple of weeks it should be pretty clear that I feel there is too much negativity in science fiction fandom (or at least online fandom). Well I’m a firm believer that if you see a problem you should attempt to solve it. A while back I posted about 7 Things that SciFi Fans Should Stop Doing, now I’m going to provide…

Trekmovie.com have posted the first set of posters for the next Star Trek film. Each poster highlights one member of the new cast.

I’ve not been that enthusiastic about the whole Star Trek reboot, but I have to say this at least does look good. The actors seem to have been well picked at least as far as looks are concerned.

One thing I particularly like is the fact that the Romulan…