Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

I’d like to take a moment of your time to draw more attention to a new sponsor on the site. Elf Life, bills itself as a A fairy tale for grownups and other silly people. It turns out, I’m one of them, though I haven’t decided yet if I’m a grownup or just a silly person.

The current strip is actually Elf Life: Babes in the Woods which is a prequel…

Scott Sigler is a writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and newspaper articles with degrees in Journalism and Marketing. To quote directly from his own bio, his work “revolves around modern science’s dichotomy of simultaneously producing good and evil.” He is currently producing and narrating the worlds first podcast novel, EarthCore, which he originally wrote.

Scott has been actively promoting his podcast of EarthCore and was generous enough to answer a…

This week the National Cartoonists Society is teaming up with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) for Reading Is Fun Week. More than 30 syndicated and regional artists will promote reading in their strips May 15-21.

Among the nationally syndicated features participating are: Chip Sansom’s “Born Loser,” Greg Evans’ “Luann,” Ron Ferdinand and Marcus Hamilton’s “Dennis the Menace,” Peter Guren’s “Ask Shagg,” and Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s “Zits.” [Full list below]

“Getting…

DallasNews.com has an interesting article about the fact that both Star Wars and Star Trek are coming to a conclusion of sorts this month. Now the premise is somewhat flawed by the fact that future Star Wars projects are already in the works and no one really believes that Star Trek is gone for good. Still it does raise an interesting question. Where next?

There’s still other genre films and television…

The good folks over at The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation dropped me an email to let me know about a book that they have recently published in the UK. Essential SF is aimed at introducing newcomers to SF or to show the broader range of SF to those who have become interest in a particular series or film.

You can read more about Essential SF at Concatenation’s site. The author’s…