There is a Disney rip-off of Inkheart coming out tomorrow, but accept no substitutes; here is a trailer for the real version, which will be out later in 2009.
Welcome to WordPress, indeed! My early telnet servers, which became web sites in the 90’s, were built as places I could use when I slammed into the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death, for the terminally young) to retrieve my hard-won Science Fiction links. Come 2K, moving from a web site to a blog was the next iteration of that process, and the migration to WordPress the latest step in the dance.
As I put entries in here, I will adjust their dates to the timestamp of their original postings, so they are in historical context. I will add comments when the mood strikes me in italics before the entry itself. I will leave most of the original links, but if I find any links now going to malware sites or spam harvesters, they will be deleted as I identify them (with a link to the archive of the original site if one still exists). I have decided not to go through my entire online history of postings, but limit it to stuff from this century, or maybe only the last handful of years. If anything I posted longer ago than that is still relevant and/or interesting, it will become the topic of a new post.
Doug Adams may be gone from our lives, but his legacy lives on, in many places online and off. One of the best is at HitchHikers, the new community repository. Then there are links like HitchHikers Guide, to let you play games and do a lot more. My favorite new BBC site is BBC 7, which includes the BBC’s SciFi Showcase, brand new and worth your attention! The Doctor Who entry alone is worth the price of admission… which is free, BTW. Ignore the fact that at the time of this page’s posting, the new Who series had not yet been signed off on! It is an old post, after all…LOL…
There is finally a Trailer online for the new Doctor Who series. See it at the BBC Dr Who cult site. If you prefer to check the site as a whole, THIS is your best link. Roxxy spotted a California license plate labeled SMEGOFF, so for those of you wondering, here is the H2G2 Red Dwarf info. If you don’t need the background, go straight to the Red Dwarf official site, and learn the latest about the new movie, the Austrailian connection, and a whole lot more.
A few links to let you read new SciFi online for free…
To start, there is the Infinite Matrix, which has both free online stories to read, and a lot of great articles for your enjoyment. Then there is Free SF Online, a German group contributing to the cause. And let us not forget Infinity Plus, a British site with a lot of good stories to share. And that doesn’t even go into such things as Star Harbor, a great superheroic and fantasy fiction story team, or Nation States, a killer online Game environment! Enjoy!
The Images of Science Fiction are worth checking out, in all their forms. Sometimes it is High Art, like these Giger sites. Sometimes it is only Comics, also known as Manga, like SteamPowered. Sometimes the best images are Animated, and sometimes the animations are Online, this time as a Menu Structure for StarTrek fans.