Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

In recent weeks the Dragon Page’s Cover to Cover podcast has discussed the issue of authors writing books in another author’s world, specifically
“zombie novels” where the original author is dead. The specific case that started the discussion was the news that there would be a new Null-A novel by John C. Wright. The World of Null-A is a novel by A E van Vogt which was published in 1948. That…

I’ve created a Knol on Science Fiction and I’m looking for people to help me edit and revise it.

Knols are a new Google concept and are intended to be comprehensive articles on a particular subject. I have created a basic outline but I am looking for people to help me populate it with key information on authors, movies, awards and other key information about the science fiction genre.

I’ve set…

This one will ruffle some feathers. Okay full disclosure. I’m British. I live in America but I spent the first 28 years of my life in Scotland so I am unquestionably British. Maybe I’m biased.

But I’m not wrong.

Even Britain’s obscure or failed science fiction shows have a greater range and imagination than the majority of the scifi output from American television. I don’t think the distinction is nearly so clear…

Back in the summer of 2002 it occurred to me that we were at the beginning of a “golden age of geekdom.” What prompted this thought? The fact that within the space of one year we would see a brand new movies devoted to Star Wars, Spider-Man and Lord of the Rings. If you had told me this back when I was twelve, I would have been over the moon with joy.…

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…