Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

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

• How to build a better being on the National Geographic Channel will be showcasing Spore
• How You Can “Save” PC Gaming
• New Star Wars Videogame Unleashes the Force in You
• Games Demystified: Portal, on Gamasutra, goes into the science behind the game.
• SFSignal begins a Game Bits column

Upcoming games? Videogames meta-discussion? News about the intersection of videogames and science fiction? If you…

News about science fiction on the Internet.

• The Con Anti-Harassment Project is a grass-roots campaign to encourage conventions to create anti-harassment policies
• Zombie CSU website launched in conjunction with the book launch. Zombie CSU includes over 250 interviews with real-world experts ranging from Law Enforcment and the Military to Psychology and Medicine to present the first ever look at how our real world would react, research and respond to a zombie uprising.
• Lonelygirl15…

Baen Books are releasing the following books during September 2008:

• Duainfey by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
• Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn by Eric Flint, David Drake
• Van Rijn Method & Poul Anderson
• Yellow Eyes by John Ringo & Tom Kratman
• The Long Twilight by Keith Laumer
• Thraxas Under Siege by Martin Scott

Didi and Phil Gilson contacted me to let me know about a new science fiction feature film Gaea: Beyond the Son. The Gilsons have already published a novel of the same story (written as P. D. Gilson). The movie is being produced by Greentrees films who hope to begin production in 2009.

Gaea: Beyond The Son is about a father who is separated from his son through war, over 30 yeasr…

If you’re a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction you may want to keep an eye out for Paul Kane’s new book The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead which will be published in September in the UK and then in November here in the US.

Kane is playing on the legend of Robin Hood in this book which is set in an England that has reverted to the Middle Ages after a virus killed 90%…

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…

The Sci Fi Channel has greenlit a two hour movie based on their Stargate Atlantis series. Sci Fi will of course have the television premiere for the movie which will aslo get a DVD release.

The Stargate Atlantis movie will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie and will follow Atlantis’ fifth and final season (which is set to conclude in January 2009). It seems at this new…

As you probably know by now Star Wars: The Clone Wars features a new padawan (apprentice Jedi) and a female one at that. While there have been female Jedi in the movies, they haven’t really gotten very much attention in the past

The character or Ahsoka Tano is voiced by Ashley Eckstein (Thats So Raven) and Kristy sent me an email to let me know that GeekSugar has posted an interview…

Okay how often do you get to write a title like that? Herb Kauderer, one of the hosts of the internet talk show Orthopedic Horseshoes let me know that the August 2008 episode “Growing Up as Part of Losing Your Originality” is now up.

The show features an interview with James Alan Gardner, science fiction writer and two-time Aurora Award winner as well as Hugo and Nebula nominee.

During the interview the…

I can’t say I’m particularly surprised to read Filmstalker reporting that Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have stopped looking for writers and will write the Hobbit movies themselves.

Somehow I never really saw these two standing back and letting another person construct this movie. Supposedly Jackson and del Toro have been looking for a suitable script writer for the last eight months, but now with their schedules cleared they’ve stopped…