"Never before in the history of the world have such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. This was no disciplined march, it was a stampede. Without order and without a goal. Six million people unarmed and unprovisioned driving headlong. It was the beginning of the route of civilization...
James Doohan died today after many health problems. He played Scotty, the chief of engineering, on Star Trek. I remember watching the movie Trekkies when he was interviewed. He said he was astonished at how many people he inspired to choose engineering as a career. St. Patrick is considered the patron...
At the recommendation of Chris I decided to go ahead and add another tv series to my growing list. This one is called Charlie Jade and runs on the Canadian version of the SciFi channel. Very good so far, I love the film noir quality, awesome. Gritty, rainy, shadows, dark rooms, very Blade Runner like...
So they are making new Dr. Who episodes in the UK again. Yay! This is the ninth doctor to do the role. I did a little reading and this guy seems to be one of the more serious actors in the UK right now. Funny he should take this role. His assistant is a little nubile blondie who was a pop star in the...
So I've been reading this book Hominids by Robert Sawyer . As usual he's put together a good story. About a parallel universe in which the Neandertals became the dominant Homo species instead of us. So one them gets transported over to our universe with a wave of the scifi author's magic wand and so...
I'm not sure if anybody out there in the cable TV ready world have had a chance to catch a new show on USA called The 4400 . It's an ok scifi show, I've enjoyed the first 3 episodes so far. A reviewer on imdb.com hated it. Said it was poorly acted with terrible scripts. Well this is a made for cable...
As reported in SciFi Weekly : Ruff Wins Tiptree Award att Ruff has won the 2003 James Tiptree Jr. Award for his novel Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls , it was announced yesterday by the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award Council. Ruff will be presented with his award, $1,000 and other prizes...
So the SciFi channel is going to bring back Battlestar Galactica to TV. I never cared for the first incarnation that much. It was definitely one of the many children that the Star Wars movies gave birth to. The writing in the show was what I found silly, even at 15 years old. My beef about bringing back...
I heard the latest Matrix movie sucked. I downloaded a cam version of it last night. Couldn't hear squat so I X'd it. I'll wait for the DVD to come out.