Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who famously provided the calm and creepy voice of the computer HAL in the 1968 sci-fi masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has died at age… Read More
Uh oh. The creepy world of “Westworld” looks like it’s going to get even creepier when season two premieres on HBO next month. The studio shared a new poster/GIF on… Read More
Mark your calendars, sci-fi fans. Amazon today announced that its new anthology series “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” will premiere on Jan. 12, exclusively on Prime Video. The much-anticipated streaming series will be… Read More
I haven’t watched a “Star Trek” series since I was a kid in the 1970s and Capt. Kirk and company were the heroes of syndication. It doesn’t mean I haven’t… Read More
Silicon Valley Comic Con held a panel to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) this spring in San Jose’s historic City National Civic theater. At… Read More
Some of the masters and masterpieces of science fiction are being honored with induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture. The… Read More
Science-fiction fans with a soft spot for “Blade Runner” have plenty to celebrate today as the first trailer for “Blade Runner 2049,” a reboot of the classic 1982 film, has… Read More
“These violent desires have violent ends,” says Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), echoing the prophecy her father shared with her and Shakespeare shared with the world an indeterminable number of years before her story… Read More
The best movie trailers are the ones that actually tease you. That make you need to see a film to find out what it’s actually all about. The new trailer… Read More
Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Frankenstein are in the running to join the ranks of J.R.R. Tolkien, Stanley Kubrick, and other icons in fiction. But we aren’t talking about the epic… Read More
William Vaughn enjoyed a long career at Microsoft, as an expert in products such as Visual Basic and SQL Server, publishing twelve books on a variety of technical topics during his 14-year tenure as… Read More
As the summer blockbuster season gets into full swing, two fictional robots have already emerged to challenge our love of technology. In Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, the lead nemesis, Ultron,… Read More
Sci-fi is in the spotlight. The genre has emerged from fringe to mainstream with blockbusters like Interstellar, The Hunger Games and J.J. Abrams’ Stark Trek reboot. The sci-fi community also endured a loss… Read More
After several missed starts, the Deep Space Climate Observatory launched atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Wednesday. Although the company decided to forego recovery of the rocket due to inclement weather, SpaceX… Read More