Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

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 name of Hugo Gernsback has come up several times already in my ongoing series about The History of Science Fiction and his name is going to keep coming up as I get closer to the present day. However the only way to properly encompass the significance of Gernsback to science fiction is to look at his…

I am very pleased to welcome on board N.E. Lilly as a regular contributor to Solar Flare. He will be providing us with regular news coverage on video games and the internet as it relates to science fiction. In addition you may see a few individual reviews cropping up.

N.E. Lilly is the editor of SpaceWesterns.com. One of the things I love about science fiction is the breadth of material that…

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…

Electronic Arts Dead Space is a sci-fi first-person shooter where mankind meets aliens from another world, and survival becomes as much about mastering fear in the darkness as it does about eliminating the threat and the development team has done their research, watching dozens of horror and science fiction films.

“Now they want to pass their collection on to you! All you have to do is register for the Dead Space…