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'Doctor Who': Jodie Whittaker's "Wicked" Sense of Humour Will Bring a Stunning Doctor
Time is ticking for the Twelfth Doctor, as his time is nearly up. Peter Capaldi announced his departure from Doctor Who back in January and the BBC kept fans waiting patiently until July, which is when the new Time Lord was revealed — Jodie Whittaker, the show's first female Doctor.
By Lewis Jefferies8 years ago in Futurism
Artio's Adventure
Artio had always felt like an outsider. Her mother and two sisters already passed the test. Mother, Erui as she was known among the glade’s townsmen, was not only her mother, but mother Earth. Branwen, the eldest of all the sisters, was wisdom encompassed into the body of one. And Blodeuwedd was already the most beautiful child even before she was determined to be the beauty of flowers. Yet Artio could spend hours with animals of the wild. Blodeuwedd always complained about her various pets that would sneak out of their boxes and Branwen would examine them with her. Most of them were poisonous but Artio loved them all the same. She was the trouble maker, always ignoring her mother’s insistence of ‘never venture.’ To her, the woods were more home-like than the mud-home created centuries ago.
By Faith Young8 years ago in Futurism
Tilted Stage
Dripping down over her skin, the droplets felt cold with the morning sun looming overhead. Her light auburn hair blended with her soft skin, making her feel almost invisible. The distant roar of the crowd made her eyes sparkle with color. She wondered if any of them even knew her name.
By Jimi Alan B8 years ago in Futurism
Movie Review: Shortwave
Shortwave is at once exceptionally ambitious and completely insane. The film about a shortwave radio engineer and his wife dealing with the consequence of his having invented shortwave technology that can speak to lifeforms not of this Earth has remarkable ambition but lacks the budget and ability to meet that ambition. Part arty, pretentious nonsense and part low budget sci-fi exploitation, Shortwave is, at the very least unique.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Futurism
Best Space Western Sci-Fi Books. Top Story - October 2017.
They are often misconstrued among the oscillating worlds of science fiction, but it's about time the best space western sci-fi books get the recognition they deserve. Don't know what a space western sci-fi is? Well, I'm sure you do, you just don't know it yet.
By George Herman8 years ago in Futurism
Is Our Universe Ours?
Almost everything we have ever discovered has turned out to be not the only example. Be it dinosaurs or suns we have found multiple examples of it. There was a time, however, where the Sun was not only considered to be the centre of things (quite the advancement of previous beliefs) but the only example of such a thing; just like Earth was considered to be the only world. Later we knew stars were other suns and some of the obvious moving bodies in the solar system were other worlds. Now we know that other suns have worlds of their own. Some may very well be like ours; in fact, given the astronomical numbers involved this is a given.
By Simon Mcbride8 years ago in Futurism
Best Sci-Fi Books About Mars
So distant, yet so close, the little red planet seems to consistently wink at us from high and far, yet we know so little about it. While travel plans to the sand-filled world are in the works by a number of different agencies besides NASA, the all-too unimaginable brilliance wrought by it seems to only come out in the best sci-fi books about Mars.
By Salvador Lorenz8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Bladerunner 2049'
I loved it. So did my son Simon, who's now a father of his own. We loved it almost as much as the original Bladerunner, which we saw more than once on videotape, before there even were DVDs for rent, back in the early 1990s. That's high praise. The only reason Bladerunner 2049 wasn't as good as Bladerunner circa 1982 was that the 1982 movie broke so much new ground. Back in the mid-80s, when I was teaching in the MA in Media Studies Program at the New School, I asked Stephen Jacobs (who then was my student, and has long since become a professor himself, at the Rochester Institute of Technology) to give me an example of cyberpunk movies. "Bladerunner," he replied. It defined the field, at least in the movies. It was and still is that good. Not only that, it began Philip K. Dick's run of stories made into great movies and TV series, with the current example of The Man in the High Castle on Amazon. And it inspired me to write The Civil Right of Robots.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Interstellar Object
One of the first sci-fi books I ever read was Rendevzous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I was only about twelve years old, and it left a lasting impression. My imagination has been running overtime for the better part of twenty years because of it; after all, what would it be like to have an extraterrestrial object ploughing through our solar system? What would that mean for mankind?
By Simon Mcbride8 years ago in Futurism
