Just over a year on from my previous post about it, The Program Audio Series podcast returns for a full first season: The Program is a historical podcast set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on… Continue reading The return of The Program
Tag: speculative fiction
For All Mankind
Well, I’ve dipped a toe into Apple’s vision of the future of TV by watching the first two episodes of For All Mankind, and I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far: [A…] captivating “what if” take on history from Golden Globe nominee and Emmy Award winner, Ronald D. Moore. Told through the lives of astronauts,… Continue reading For All Mankind
George Lucas Astride a Mountain of Cash
If this is a joke or a spoof then someone is leaving it rather late in the day to spring a surprise on us all: If the universe somehow arranged for a time traveller to pay a visit to young George Lucas just before he started filming Star Wars and show him that video[note]And stuck… Continue reading George Lucas Astride a Mountain of Cash
Trek Tech Manuals (continued)…
Dan Hon, helpfully filling in some blanks in Starfleet’s documentation: Reporting Security Issues on the Federation Starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D… Keeping Your LCARS Account Secure Federation LCARS computer systems use a sophisticated n-factor authentication system to allow access to ship systems. Permissions are role and context based with an underlying entitlement system. In the interests… Continue reading Trek Tech Manuals (continued)…
A Tool Using Animal
Reading Wired’s Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online… At a time when we’re trying to figure out how to make the internet livable for humans, without exploiting other humans in the process, AO3 (AO3, to its friends) offers something the rest of tech could learn from. … mostly served to remind me… Continue reading A Tool Using Animal
The Hooded Swan series
James Nicoll reminds us of Brian M. Stableford’s Hooded Swan series, which I adored back in the late 1970/early 1980s: The Hooded Swan stories are gloomy and morose to the point of parody. If it were possible for space to be overcast and drizzling, it would be so everywhere Grainger goes. I have to confess… Continue reading The Hooded Swan series
I demand an Old Night spin-off
It’s a real shame that The OA reportedly won’t be returning for a third season: Farewell to The OA, the Netflix series created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij and starring Marling, which lasted two ambitious, lopsided seasons. It told a story of alternate realities to which characters could travel by working through the rejected… Continue reading I demand an Old Night spin-off
Casting
It’d be nice to think that we live in the timeline where the most noteworthy effect of Deepfakes will be to swap one Hollywood actor for another but somehow I doubt we’re going to be that lucky: In some parallel universe, there’s a version of Casino Royale with Hugh Jackman playing everyone’s favorite suave British… Continue reading Casting
Wikihistory
I know I’ve read Wikihistory before a few years ago, but I was reminded of it earlier today and it’s definitely funny enough to be worth posting here: International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War Page 263 11/15/2104 At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal… Continue reading Wikihistory
“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.”
Peter Watts breaks the bad news to us: A couple of months ago, its creators announced that Counterpart is dead after a mere two seasons. It just couldn’t attract enough viewers, out of all the people on two Earths. And I think that’s a shame; Counterpart was more than just SF for people who hate… Continue reading “All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.”