Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science Fiction
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Out shopping for birthday presents at the weekend when I stumbled across a copy of Cult Themes – ITV 50 – Classic TV Show Theme Tunes which somehow had to find it’s way into the shopping basket. Some of the tracks are the original TV themes music, others are very good covers (not some guy…
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A couple of blogs that explore science fiction and popular culture from a religious perspective that I’ve come across recently. The Sci Fi Catholic SF Gospel
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Books on the go at the moment. Writing at the Edge of the Universe Published by Canterbury University Press (2003), it’s a collection of essays, interviews, reflections and talks from the ‘Creative Writing in New Zealand’ Conference. Covers everything from politics, young adults fiction, comics, hypertext, and definitions of ‘cultural’ within the NZ writing scene.…
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I like the genre of Steampunk – which fuses the historical setting of 19th century Europe with advanced technological visions. Think steam-powered spaceships or Sherlock Holmes stories with mechanical computers thrown in. Elements of it crop up in comic books – the 2000AD series Nemesis was set for a while in a alien society that…
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The Warner Brothers BABYLON 5 web site has the trailer up for new B5 movie due out in a month or two. Also available at: YouTube – Babylon 5: lost tales. There’s also a two part article on the new movie available at: CGSociety – Babylon 5 ‘Lost Tales’: Part One CGSociety – Babylon 5…
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Gwyneth Jones on developing robot technology | Features | Guardian Unlimited Film talks about how much more prescient the genre of cyberpunk was/is at looking at the future, as opposed to more general science fiction. The article also takes the slant that technology is a value-neutral instrument that only achieves moral dimensions when humans choose…
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Lynn Schofield Clark – While I’m here, update on LOST is a interesting look at how religion has been seen by viewers of the TV show LOST. I don’t watch the programme (the TV ads they had here promoting its arrival turned me off), but I found the article intriguing. (Hat tip to Tensegrities »…
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Links to a two-part post on the creation of immersive story worlds that span soaps, wrestling, and superhero comics. Interestingly, another post on the blog connects the worlds of soaps with comic books more explicitly using the example of DC’s recent 52 and Marvel’s Civil War. Not too surprising really, given that Star Trek and…
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A page has appeared on Amazon for the first installment of the new direct-to-DVD Babylon 5 series: Amazon.com: Babylon 5 – The Lost Tales. So, it should be here sooner rather than later (at least for Region 1 release). Will it stand up to watching in the post-Firefly universe though? More information over at: J.…
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Damaris have released some study resources for Firefly to go with the Serenity resource, See Culture Watch – Firefly and Culture Watch – Serenity.