Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: December 24, 2014


"Worlds Eater" by Poland-based Klaudia (AverrisVis)


Interview: Functional Nerds interviews Rajan Khanna, author of Falling Sky.

Interview: George Takei discusses Akira’s casting decisions.

Interview: The Guardian Books Podcast interviews William Gibson, author of Neuromancer.

Interview: IGN interviews Joss Whedon, director of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Interview: Larry King interviews Nathan Fillion, star of Firefly.

Interview: Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Martha Wells of Stories of the Raksura.

Interview: The Verge interviews Brian K. Vaughan, author of Saga.

News: The Doctor named greatest sci-fi character of all time in BFI poll

News: Philip Pullman Releases New His Dark Materials Story for Christmas

The 10 Best And 10 Worst Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies Of 2014

The 10 Most Disappointing Sci-Fi and Fantasy of 2014

10 Reasons Why The 100 Is the Best Show You’re (Probably) Not Watching

10 Ways To Turn Your Real Life Experiences Into Science Fiction

Ascension Ends With A Final Supreme Moment Of WTF. I would post a spoiler warning, but I don’t think anyone expects to come away from a SyFy movie without exclaiming “WTF!” at least once.

Ascension Fails as a Miniseries, But Would Make a Great TV Show

Ascension finale review: Lost in space, or “Lost” in space?

Ascension: What Syfy Did Better Than Most TV Networks

BFI on The Best Sci-Fi Characters of All Time.

BFI releases a list of the Top 100 Best Sci-Fi Characters of All Time. #1 is Obvious, feel free to debate the rest

Bibliotropic on Top 7 Sci-Fi/Speculative Novels I Read in 2014.

Blastr on The 15 best sci-fi and fantasy television episodes of 2014.

Bloomberg considers Ascension and Sci-Fi’s Fiction Problem

Doctor Who Christmas Special to feature plug for rival drama Game Of Thrones in one of the final scenes in episode

Doctor Who Christmas special: what you need to know

Doctor Who Christmas Specials: are they getting nerdier? Yup.

How to reboot I Am Legend: An open letter to Warner Bros

Infographic: The History of TRON Vehicles


Kevin T. Lee says We’re Not Ready For Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens.

Lovesick Cyborg on The Illusion of Star Wars Technology.

MoviePilot takes a look at the influences of Frank Herbert.

NASA Wants To Build A Floating City On Venus.

Nerdist on Celebrating STAR WARS With Jason Reitman’s EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Live Read.

NPR on Black Holes And Our Cosmic Future

OuterPlaces remembers The 18 Biggest Sci-Fi TV Moments of 2014.

Peruse Interstellar’s highly significant bookcase!

Read 10 Original Reviews for Star Wars: A New Hope

The Star Wars Christmas TV special is well known around these parts. But last week the CBC posted the first ever oral history of Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album featuring interviews with producer Tony Bongiovi, composer Maury Yeston and C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels.

Syfy’s Ascension Left Us Wanting More (In Good And Bad Ways) says GFR

Why the Doctor Who Christmas special really needs to work this year.


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