Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Okay that’s a sweeping simplification. It would be more accurate to claim that there’s no such thing as a single unifying science fiction fandom.

I think there’s a strong case to be made that historically there used to be one. The one that formed around the pulp magazines, that essentially created WorldCon and the Hugos. Members of that fandom were at one time a pretty good example of the average…

Author Douglas Rea dropped me an email to let me know about his novel Mobile Trek which is currently available in e-book form. The pitch goes something like this:

For anyone who ever had to phone a “call centre”, or worked in a call centre, and thought they were connected to some spacecraft in the distant future. USS Cellforce 1 is an intergalactic mobile phone call centre, in which Captain Pilchard…

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 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…

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…