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I have been a Guillermo del Toro fan for a long time. Not only are his movies intelligent and fantastic, but I feel like as a director he really gets me, me personally as an individual. Guillermo Del...
Making the hop from film to television seems to be increasingly common these days, so it’s no great surprise to see Halle Berry headlining CBS’s latest sci-fi offering, Extant. The show premiered...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the nominee list for the annual Nebula Awards, and, as usual, it’s got some strong points of interest. There’s an...
Ever feel like you’re having difficulty keeping characters straight? That could have been a problem in Orphan Black, a new BBC America scripted series based on the premise that a set of cloned...
When China Miéville’s The City and the City won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2010, there was some debate over whether or not the book was really science fiction. With his new book there can be no...
We’re falling. Falling, spinning, hurtling through the air, plummeting to certain death. The Flay-like mercenary, Royce claws at his parachute, desperately trying to punch it open before he...
I am an unabashed sci-fi fan. I love "Star Trek," and even tried to get into "Enterprise." I have watched all six "Star Wars" movies and "Blade Runner" in the theaters during their first weekend of...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Dr. Strangelove." The screen is at first an impenetrable dark. “Real country dark” as Alex DaLarge might say....