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Top science fiction inventions we should have by now
WHEN I was a boy, I grew up under the assumption that by the time 2008 rolled around, we’d be living on the moon, eating our meals in pill form and using jet packs to get around. Instead, things are pretty much the same now as they were then, but why? It’s [Read More]
Denied an Iron Man cinema trip
TODAY I set out to take my stepson to the cinema to watch the sci-fi delights of Iron Man. Imagine my surprise then when he announced rather grandly he’d rather go out with his friends than me. [Read More]
Aural pleasure – William Shatner is The Transformed Man
SEEING as I’m in a linking kind of mood, this is pure gold! If you’ve had a bad day, turn on, tune in and chill out – it’s the Shat at his psychedelic, sci-fi best!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yy2URAYqU&feature=related I like to close my [Read More]
Remembering the BBC Radiophonic workshop
IF you follow this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7365120.stm you’ll find a nice feature the Beeb have written about their Radiophonic Workshop. [Read More]
Blake’s Seven is ready for tv comeback
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IF you understand what I’m talking about when I say the words Gan, Orac, Zen and Federation, then you will have felt a tremor in the force this week. It seems that Sky are having a go at bringing back Blake’s Seven. If this comes to anything it would be [Read More]
We are the world
HOLD the phone – this blog is now international!! Upon checking the pagelink activity from my site, while most people logging on are from the UK, I have had one visitor from Sweden and one from Thailand. Greetings and salutations to you, my friends from around the [Read More]
Doctor Who, Blackpool, David Tennant, David McDonald and me
I HAVE always felt that I have a kinship with Doctor Who – even in the days of wobbly sets and even wobblier ‘special’ effects. I mention this as we took a trip to Blackpool at the weekend, somewhere that has always been strongly linked with the Gallifrey [Read More]
Top 5 Sci-Fi Babes
Johnny Bravo - ‘Hey there future babe, I’ve set my phasers to lurve!’ FOR as long as there have been sci-fi programmes, there have been sci-fi babes. So, in shameless attempt to appeal to the sci-fi watching key demographic, here is a list of my top five [Read More]
Edward James Olmos is perfect as Battlestar Galactica’s Commander Adama
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IT is hard to imagine Edward James Olmos playing a transvestite hooker or a flamboyant torch singer. However as Admiral Bill Adama of the Battlestar Galactica, he is perfect in every way. [Read More]
Not that type of love
IT HAS just struck me that certain types of people who search the internet may be attracted to this blog for the wrong reasons. For the record, it is a healthy love of the genre I will be writing about on SciFi Love. [Read More]
