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15 Ways Science Will Kill Us All
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Tagged apocalypse, humor, satire, science, science fiction, sf
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The Physics of Space Battles – Gizmodo
The diff between “hard” SF and “soft” SF? You worry about stuff like this when you write the “hard” stuff. The Physics of Space Battles – Gizmodo.
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Tagged battle, creative, physics, sci-fi, science fiction, sf, space, war, writing
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Peter’s Evil Overlord List
Writers, especially beginning writers, need to study this list to help avoid cliched writing: Peter’s Evil Overlord List.
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Tagged cliche, genre, humor, overlord, science fiction, sf, tips, writing
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Five Tips For Getting Television and Science Fiction to Play Nice
Science Fiction (SF and SF/F – Science Fiction and Fantasy) on television has never been an easy sell. If you look at the history of the medium, you find few SF/F entries among those series that had a good run. Mostly it’s a road littered with what-might-have-been-if-onlies.
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Tagged audience, creative, fanboys, fangirls, network, science fiction, sf, sff, show, studio, success, suits, television, tips, tv
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Comic-Con – Victim of Its Own Success?
With Comic-Con sprouting again in San Diego in ’09, I can’t help feel like this year is different. I’ve had this sense before with other sorts of conventions. Has Comic-Con’s popularity caused it to meet their fate?
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Tagged celebrities, celebs, comic-con, comiccon, comics, convention, fanboy, fangirl, fantasy, fiction, geeks, genre, hollywood, marketing, movies, nerds, science fiction, scifi, television
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Star Trek Memories
I’ve had Star Trek be a part of my life since 1967. I was in elementary school at the time. Though I didn’t quite latch on to the series when it started, by the end of the first season I was hooked. Who knew that 42 years later, I’d still be talking about it?
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Tagged convention, fan, fandom, fanfic, fiction, motion picture, movies, science fiction, scifi, sf, star trek, television, Trek, trekker, trekkie, trekkist, tribbles, tv
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Terminator Fans Are a Force in End-of-season Polls
It’s been interesting to watch this year’s round of Poll-ballot-stuffing a/k/a which bubble show should be saved surveys. Every season, the passionate fans of a series band together and do their level best to flood sites with just as many votes as possible.
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Tagged bubble, chronicles, chuck, fans, fox, kristin, poll, programming, ratings, sarah connor, save, science fiction, sf, show, television, terminator, ttscc, tv, vote
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TTSCC – Beyond John’s Army
Let’s look at the world that is not in John Connor’s upper caste–all of those humans that aren’t soldiers but just trying to survive. Let’s also look at the world outside Connor’s camp, especially since we now have the post-season-2 altered timeline.
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Tagged adapt, community, conditions, connor, dystopia, environment, huddled, judgment day, life, living, organize, peons, people, population, refuse, science fiction, scifi, skynet, television, terminator, ttscc, tunnel rat, tunnel troll, tv, urchins, world, wretched
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