Tag: sci-fi

Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film

01/10/2019

The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film is a scrupulous study of a film’s inception and its progression through to finish....

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Sons of a Galactic Wasteland

08/07/2018

Sons Of Alpha Centauri get a little space-y with latest instrumental release 'Continuum' - but is it cool, Sci-Fi space or just the dark bits in between?...

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Sci-Fi Politicism Meets Erudite Poetry

08/06/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmagine another world in which extra-terrestrials roam or slide with their cyborg affiliates. Imagine their futuristic habitats, their disasters...

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And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

10/10/2017

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot?...

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Would You Trust a Car to Make an Ethical Decision?

06/07/2017

Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do ...

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Radiophonic Workshop

Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)

30/06/2017

Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now...

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Sci-Fi London,

Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17

18/04/2017

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more...

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One We Haven’t Ruined Yet: Geologists Find Lost Continent

02/02/2017

Researchers confirm the existence of a 'lost continent' under Mauritius ...

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Drug-Producing Artificial Leaf Can Grow Paracetemol on Mars

27/12/2016

Artificial leaf serves as mini-factory for drugs ...

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David Cronenberg, Consumed

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

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organic computers

Fuzzy Logic, Artisan Mathematicians: The Quest for Organic Computers

06/10/2016

Turning to the brain to reboot computing ...

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Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)

27/06/2016

150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt....

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Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

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tatooine like planet

Newly Discovered Circumbinary Exoplanet Resembles Tatooine

15/06/2016

Largest crowdsource astronomy network helps confirm discovery of 'Tatooine' planet ...

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Philip K DICK

The Man in the Amazon Castle (No Spoilers)

30/01/2016

Amazon Prime and Ridley Scott team up to bring Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle to the screen. Trebuchet recommends...

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Bowie

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

02/01/2016

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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science-fiction

TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)

23/09/2015

Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint....

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The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

25/04/2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

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Watching the Hugos burn. Sci-Fi Controversy Wreaks Havoc

21/04/2015

At this point, the Hugo Awards of 2015 look as good as dead, and everyone is now fighting over a corpse....

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop : Southbank Centre

16/03/2015

Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop...

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Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...

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PK DICK

Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

14/08/2013

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

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PK DICK

Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday

08/08/2013

If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it....

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PK DICK

Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard

03/08/2013

Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner...

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PK DICK

Philip K. Dick : 2-3-74

30/07/2013

'Plastic explosives had been used to open his filing cabinets and many important manuscripts, letters, notes and possessions were missing.' Philip K. Dick's trials continue....

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PK DICK

And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2

22/07/2013

A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man...

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PK DICK

And Phil Kept Falling

17/07/2013

Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with...

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The Man With the Neutron Gun

05/10/2012

'If you want to pull off this kind of high-wire surrealist polemic, you need to write with confidence and daring. Even if your daily existence off the page is fractured by neurotic behaviour...

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Fringe, It’s Quatertastic!

29/08/2012

Insectoid Martian colonizers buried for millions of years under an East End tube station, hauntings by ghosts of extra-terrestrials, biological food vats that turn out to be alien life forms...

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