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Science fiction
A community portal about Science fiction with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Science fiction is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at... [more]
A community portal about Science fiction with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Science fiction is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical. Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, but there are also many science-fiction works in which an exotically alien setting is superimposed upon what would not otherwise be a science-fiction tale. It is commonly used to refer to fictional worlds more technologically advanced than present-day earth.
Via The Onion:
NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis, which eerily depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War, premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to our own.
The much-anticipated television event is said to be the most ambitious ever produced by the science-fiction-themed network, which is a subsidiary of the Aryan Broadcasting Company. According to the early response...
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The storied days of your grandfather’s print sci-fi journals are mostly over. For proof, look no further than Prime Books, indie publisher of Fantasy Magazine, which is joining the digital evolution with a new online science-fiction and science-fact mag called Lightspeed written for a new generation of sci-fi fans.
“We’re reaching out to a new audience [...]
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From blog.wired.com
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There’s no shortage of science fiction that predicts a future far too unknown and unexplored to the common man, and usually those kinds of work are initially dismissed, only to become cult classics, no matter what medium they are told in. We’ve compiled a list of ten sci-fi movies that were ahead of [...]
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From screenhead.com
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When we beamed our lists of favorite science fiction movies onto the pages of Wired.com, we knew some of our readers would think we were goofier than Jar Jar Binks.
Little did we know that Wired.com readers would fire back with such vehemence, vitriol and — most importantly — sincere [...]
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From blog.wired.com
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Acclaimed British science fiction author Richard K. Morgan has announced that he's teaming up with EA to help pen the stories for three of the publisher's upcoming titles. Writing on his site, Morgan - best known for his novels Altered Carbon and Black Man/Thirteen - says he was approached last year by EA's John Miles with a view to writing a game that was currently in development. Things obviously went well, because Morgan is now "consulting...
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From kotaku.com
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