Thursday, October 16, 2014

Sci-Fi Round-Up: October 15, 2014

War of the Worlds by Tom Kidd

"War of the Worlds" by Tom Kidd


Interview: The L.A. Times interviews Scott Westerfeld, author of Afterworlds.

Interview: Reddit hosted an AMA for Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice. (Highlights)

Interview: Sword and Laser interviews Robert Jackson Bennett, author of City of Stairs.

David Brin weighs in on Sci Fi Flicks! Some looks back and forward.

Doctor Who just came out – as a pro-life Christian conservative, argues The Telegraph.

Doctor Who: why care about scientific plausibility? Doctor Who has long glossed over scientific logic for storytelling reasons, says Andrew. Why complain about implausibility now?

Fiction Prediction: The Legacy of Science Fiction Writers



Imperial Imprecision: It’s long been known that Star Wars: A New Hope contains examples of some of the worst marksmanship in the history of cinema, particularly with respect to the Emperor’s ‘elite’ forces. But how bad were they really? Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a statistical measure of exactly how astonishingly bad imperial stormtroopers were at hitting their mark?

Infographic: Artificial Intelligence – Good and Evil

James Wallace Harris on Classifying Science Fictional Ideas.

Krystie Lee Yandoli on 14 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Margaret Atwood.

The Legacy of Muad’Dib: The Cult That Frank Herbert Never Wanted

On Christ and Pop Culture, my comrade E. Stephen Burnett writes about the philosophical underpinnings of Doctor Who’s new season: “Behind each of series eight’s first three episodes —  even the choppy, lackluster “Deep Breath” —  seems to lie probing questions about not only the very identity of the Doctor himself but the whole concept of Doctor Who.”

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles Blends Sci-fi And Social Commentary

Six Things We Learned About Interstellar and Science From the Mobile Game (and Trailers)

Sci-Fi authors explain the relation of scientific advancements to genre

Star Wars on Trial: Do Myths Teach Us? If So, What Have We All Learned From Star Wars?

TIME on 35 Things We Learned From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Watch Edge Of Tomorrow Deleted Scenes Feature Tom Cruise Adapting To His New Situation


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