Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

News about science fiction on the Internet.

• Will TheWB Be Your New Favorite Website? The WB launches a new video on demand website, and adds your favorite Science Fiction shows.
• Pyr’s blog now a group effort
• Gemini Division, an NBC web series, has gone live.
• The Fate of Short Fiction Online. Gordon Van Gelder, editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, wants your input.
• Sites of the Week: Batman on Film (AMC SciFi…

News about science fiction on the Internet.

• Fanzines beget blogs by Robert Ebert
• TTA Press launches Transmissions From Beyond podcast site
• Fruitless Recursion is a news website that publishes criticism of science fiction criticism
• Castle Television Series new website launched. Castle is a drama based on a famous mystery novelist, Nick Castle (Nathan Fillion) who helps the NYPD homicide department solve crimes.
• There You Have It, 10 Years Of SyFy Portal. SyFy Portal celebrates 10 years online.
• SF…

News for science fiction fans who like video games of all sorts.

• Warren Ellis discloses that he wrote Dead Space story
• PAX coming to East Coast in 2010!
• Top 5 Best Aliens in Video Games
• Star Trek online game ready to engage
• Star Trek Online Gameplay Trailer
• 2 new StarCraft 2 gameplay videos - Protoss & Zerg
• Disney Leading Hollywood to the Videogame Grail
• Video games can’t be blamed for humanity’s problems

Upcoming games? Videogames meta-discussion? News about the…

News about science fiction on the Internet.

• Transcriptase launches as an archive for ex-Helix writer’s stories.
• Web Fiction Guide is a new online resource to keep track of online fiction: e-zines and blooks (blogged novels).
• Fan History’s science fiction section needs your help. Fan History is a fan run project dedicated to documenting the history of fandom. Laura Hale, site admin, is asking for more people in the science fiction community to help develop it.
• Will…

News for science fiction fans who like video games of all sorts.

• Stargate Worlds was demo’d by GameSpy at Comic-Con International. It’s due to be released Q4 2008.
• In The Making (and Remaking) of Bionic Commando 1up reports various tidbits on the latest incarnation of the classic 1987 arcade game.
• Engage! Cryptic to obtained the license for Star Trek and has begun work on an Massive Multiplayer Online game. More details will be revealed at the…

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The Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog webisodes were shot in the span of six days and funded by Joss Whedon (for a low six figures). On July 15th, Act 1 of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog launched and under a massive influx of traffic the site crashed (reportedly taking the Whedonesque website down with it). By July 19th the third and final Act was online and by…

• Fanlib closes today. Firefox News assess the situation in an article, On the Demise of Fanlib, and Why Fan-run Sites Are More Likely to Succeed
• Genreville is a brand new blog run by Rose Fox, editor of Publishers Weekly’s SF/fantasy/horror and mass market reviews. The introductory post contains an interview with Ellen Datlow (previously of Omni, Omni Online, Event Horizon, and SCIFICTION – more recently, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction)
• Whedon…

There are a lot of games out there. Gaming genres are based on game-play mechanics: First Person Shooter (FPS), Role-playing Game (RPG), Real-Time Strategy (RTS), Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO), etc. Yet in addition to this there are the standard traditional literary genres also found within games. You can find Massive Multiplayer Online Fantasy games, First Person Shooter Detective games, and many other variations. This column is intended for science fiction fans…

I’m a science fiction fan and I have children. So it’s no surprise that I find myself, from time to time, watching children’s movies. Children’s movies have been influenced by the fantasy genre for so long, it does my heart good to see movies coming out that are actually being influenced by science fiction…

Space Chimps

I was expecting much more from this movie. The concept, a movie about chimpanzee astronauts, seemed…

July has been a great month for online science fiction. And things have been increasing their pace in the last week…

The Nebula Award

• In the beginning of the month the Nebula Awards website was launched to be an online repository for information pertaining to the Nebulas, Andre Norton Award, Grand Master and Author Emeritus Awards.
• Russell Davis, president of SFWA, made several announcements in the SFWA Live Journal forum, among them was news about an…