Star Wars and SF cinema: Where would the genre have gone without it?
You think Star Wars ruined the possibility for “legitimate science fiction” to appear on the big screen? Darren Slade suggests that you think again.
Imágenes de la interculturalidad en Star Trek
Star Trek was the first science fiction television show to deal seriously with multiculturalism and the “other.”
The Fallen Empire Series by Lindsay Buroker
Chickens in the cargo hold is a nice touch.
Review: Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja
Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja is a farcical adventure where the absurdity of reality becomes the template for the human condition and only our hero sees the silliness of it all.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Boba Fett
I’ve come across quite a staggering amount of Boba Fett art considering that this is at best a secondary character.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Old Friends
What other trilogy has brought back the original actors, playing the same parts, 40 years on?
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Finn and Poe
Best buddies in space.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Kylo Ren
So. Ya wanna be Darth Vader?
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Rey
if I had been privileged to see this movie as an impressionable teenager, I would have been profoundly in love with Rey.
Cosmocáspsula Ep. 3 – Audio cuento: “Una simple negociación” por Edher Juárez López
Cosmocapsula presents the audio story – A Simple Negotiation
Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s
We’re about as far away from Agent J’s Noisy Cricket as you can get….
More Star Wars Art Because… STAR WARS!
Pulp inspired Star Wars and then, Star Wars inspired pulp!
Asni’s Art Blog: Drop whatever else you’re doing, Star Wars is back!
Enjoy! And may the force be with you in the new year 2016.
TOP POST DE NOVIEMBRE
Tanya reviews our past month and finds it interesting.
Book Review: The Promise of the Child by Tom Toner
if you don’t mind reading in depth details about fictional worlds…
Les bandes dessinées françaises de space opera
Fabien continues his series on French Space Opera by taking a look at popular series.
How Star Wars charmed Britain on its first release
British fans get to go first this time. That wasn’t so back in 1977.
Judging Books by Their Covers: Agent of Vega
No one loves space opera more than I do.
Flash, Randy, and Sam on Route 66
Here’s what happens when Flash Gordon, Randolph Scott and Sam Peckinpah meet out on Route 66.
Flying W Press Announces the Return of The Big Shutdown
Flying W re-releases a space western classic!
Le space opera en France
Meet France’s answer to Captain Future – Bruno Coqdor – in this overview of French space opera
Big Brain Aliens
Look at the aliens from This Island Earth. If they are so smart, why are the denizens of Metaluna all such big headed pricks?
Review: Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler
Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler is the quintessential example of a guilty pleasure. You might feel a little guilty afterwards, but you’ll be anxiously awaiting a sequel.
Buck Rogers: The Way the Future Used to Be
For more than a century the name Buck Rogers has been synonymous with science fiction.
Review: The Baba Yaga by Eric Brown and Una McCormack
Weird Space: Baba Yaga by Eric Brown and Una McCormack is a fast paced space opera filled with colorful characters, intense suspense, and thought provoking drama.
Review: Exultant, by Stephen Baxter
Exultant is The Dam Busters in space, or Star Wars stripped of its mythopoetic resonances and bolstered by hard physics.
Star Trek Anthology Begins Shooting this Month
The title says it all, doesn’t it? More TOS goodness coming your way!
Small Press Book Review: Starbase Human by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The latest Retrieval Artist novel – Starbase Human – will throw you some curves.
Scide Splitters: Alexander Outland: Space Pirate by G. J. Koch
G. J. Koch (aka Gini Koch) takes readers on a fast-paced, space opera romp, filled with pirates, derring-do, donkeys, sewage, and, well… boobs.
Reseña de Libros: Los Viejos Salvajes y Campos de Batalla de Carlos de la Torre Paredes.
Two novels in review….one that reads like literary chinese boxes
