The science of assigning fictitious names to science fiction movies

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 March, 2010 to the movies subset

Code names for in-production movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey was referred to as “How the Solar System Was Won” during production, while Alien was known as “Star Beast”.

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Mad professors want sci-fi movies to comply to laws of physics

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 to the movies subset

While science-fiction movies may become more educational if they became science-non-fiction movies, would they still be entertaining?
Professor Perkowitz said he liked Starship Troopers, but criticised its giant insects, saying if you scaled up a real bug to that size it would collapse under its own weight. He hated The Core, in which a team [...]

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Not even Doctor Who could repel Margaret Thatcher

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 16 February, 2010 to the comment subset

From 1987 to 1989 episodes of Doctor Who were laced with anti government sentiment in an attempt to bring about the downfall of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, according to the then doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy.
McCoy, now 66, who took over as the Doctor three months after Thatcher’s third election victory in 1987, [...]

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The planet of Snaiad, a zoological science fiction project

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 8 February, 2010 to the design and art subset

Created by a designer with a very vivid imagination known as Nemo Ramjet, the fictitious planet of Snaiad boasts a very rich and diverse biosphere.
Snaiad is one of Humanity’s first off-world colonies, the jewel in the sky, the realm of the sublime. The hopeful colonists arriving from the war-weary Mediterranean found themselves not in a [...]

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A list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy books

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 to the comment subset

Alex Carnevale’s list of the The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time.

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First we make the movie then we design the book cover

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 22 January, 2010 to the design and art subset

Mitch Ansara has created a retro/vintage style collection of book cover images titled “I Can Read Movies”, based on movie titles.

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Chewbacca was far more than just Han Solo’s sidekick

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 18 January, 2010 to the movies subset

From 2005, an article about the original Star Wars movie (Episode Four, A New Hope) that somewhat revises the significance of Chewbacca (Chewie), and a number of other seemingly second-string characters.
Then, on the verge of escape, Vader himself turns up only yards from both of his children, one of whom is leaking Force [...]

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Naturally space travel is nothing like it is the movies either

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 14 January, 2010 to the movies subset

While some aspects of space travel as presented in science fiction movies and books are clearly implausible, others are plain inaccurate:
It’s hard to say whether it’s due to some misguided acting or a poor understanding of physics, but astronauts are often depicted moving in slow-motion when they’re in zero gravity. It’s probably because anytime [...]

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I might spend the summer break learning to speak Na’vi

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 to the movies subset

Linguist Paul Frommer, creator of the fictional Na’vi language, spoken by the indigenous population of Pandora in Avatar, has written a primer for the language.
Na’vi has 20 consonants, 7 vowels, 4 diphthongs, and 2 syllabic “pseudovowels,” rr and ll.

For truly keen Na’vi devotees, Frommer has said he will be writing about the language [...]

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The best science fiction movies since 2000

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 11 December, 2009 to the movies subset

The best science fiction movies of the last ten years as chosen by readers of Wired Magazine.

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