Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Dark Horizons has posted a review of the pilot episode of Supernatural, which is a new pilot from the WB. The reviewer describes Supernatural as X-Files, meets The OC, meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. WB apparently has the intention of showing Supernatural after The Gilmore Girls.

The long and short of it is two brothers who go on ghost hunting missions. Naturally this being a WB teen drama, there’s plenty of…

In an interview with The New York Daily News, writer David S. Goyer (responsible for the highly regarded screenplay of Batman Begins) talked about his next movie, The Flash, which he will be both writing and directing.

Of particular interest is the fact that Goyer confirms more than one Flash will appear in the film. For those who aren’t up on DC Comics history, there have been several different Flashes over…

Well actually, right now it’s 40 reasons to hate Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but the author does promise there will be 91 and given the thoroughness of what he has up so far, I have no real reason to doubt him.

Now I don’t really agree with several of the things on this list, and for others I feel that really he’s being picky for the sake…

Locus has announced winners of the 2005 Locus Awards. A complete list of results will be published in the July issue of Locus, but the winners are listed below:

SF NOVEL
# The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World, Neal Stephenson

FANTASY NOVEL
# Iron Council, China Miéville

FIRST NOVEL
# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
# A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett

NOVELLA
# “Golden City Far”, Gene Wolfe

NOVELETTE (tie)
#…

There’s another Star Trek an film online. The producers of the Starship Exeter fan film series have released the first of five parts of their second episode The Tressaurian Intersection. Similar to the fan video series Star Trek: New Voyages, Starship Exeter is set in the timeline of the original Star Trek series.

Unlike New Voyages though, Starship Exeter chronicles the adventures of the crew of the USS Exeter which is…