Strider's Sci-Fi

In 1945 Arthur C. Clarke lost a billion dollars by inventing geosynchronous communication satellites, because there was no technology capable of launching them into orbit until the late 1950s, and nothing that could reach geosynchronous orbit until the 1960s. Interestingly enough, in 1964, the same year the very first live TV news stories made it [...]

According to this Sci Fi London story, the first three books in C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series are about to be made into full production radio plays. They are calling them movie audios, but it is a full cast production with soundscape, which is the same thing as far as I can tell. I love radio [...]

Ryo Ikehata’s light novel Calamity of a Certain Zombie Girl has begun production as an Anime, and there is already an initial trailer for it. If the name sounds familiar, Ikehata’s last published series to get turned into Anime was Blood+, an excellent little Vampire story. Thanks to Crunchyroll for the heads up on that [...]

Marina Orlova is better known online under the name HotForWords, and she celebrated her 100 Millionth View on YouTube in the middle of 2008. In a recent posting she examined the origin of the name of her new cell phone, and tied it into Philip K. Dick’s classic work Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, [...]

Yep, Stan the Man finally has his own personal web site for all the true comic fans: The Real Stan Lee went online a week or two back. It has all the usual; news, forum, social networking interface, multimedia, and so forth. And to get it launched properly, he sat down with the ever delectable [...]

On Sunday I mentioned John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There because the latest iteration of the story, in movie format, is being released on disc today. But I thought I should also mention that you can read his stories online, or a number of the ones in the public domain at least. He also did [...]

I don’t normally do two blog entries on the same day, but I had to say goodby to Anne McCaffery, author of so many quality books, including the Dragonriders series, The Ship Who series, and so much more. This event is hardly a surprise, as she was 85 and had been missing things like Dragoncon [...]

Are you a comics or graphics novel fan? Do you have any idea how much work, effort, and talent goes into creating even a single issue of a single title? If you comprehend that, did you notice how many of the best artists and story tellers are women in this male dominated marketplace? 140 of [...]

According to the official Stanislaw Lem web site, there is a new, better translation into English of his masterpiece Solaris. The original Polish version of the book was translated into French by one team, and the French version was later translated into English. With the double translation came lots of errors, and Lem spoke out [...]

This trailer for Robert J. Sawyer’s book The Terminal Experiment is a little hard for me to follow (since I don’t speak Hungarian), but is quite nicely done. This one appears to be publisher created, although without a translation I am just guessing, but some quite excellent book trailers have been created by fans.