This film starts with a blank screen. Turn up your speakers and sit back for the action. Made after a $10,000 funding success on Kickstarter, Singularity is a short film that picks up right in the middle of a war between mankind and sentient androids. The US President has been shot down, survived the crash […]
Short film: Post-Human
A proof-of-concept film by David Simpson for his bestselling Post-Human novels. The film was put together a crew of just three people and was filmed in just three hours. The proof-of-concept adapts the opening of Post-Human up to, what Simpson describes as, the opening credits. The book series has been downloaded more than a million […]
A sneak peak inside the Engraver’s Dungeon
The Engraver’s Dungeon is a site that sells specially treated images from horror, classic and sci-fi movies. What’s so special about them? Each poster is a laser engraving which means it has been cut directly onto prepared wood. At the bottom of this post you’ll find a preview design piece of artist Diego Scaglia Rat’s […]
Lose yourself in the art of Shenzhen
Chinese artist Shenzhen is able to draw on powerful sci-fi images, fantastic fantasy characters and a host of contemporary styles. There’s a full gallery at Zcool.com.cn or you can check out a preview here.
This video is an impressive scale comparison of 45 spaceships
This is one of those videos that builds slowly and then starts to wheel in the surprises. Star Trek, Halo, Mass Effect and EVE Online dominate towards the end but we’ve also got V, The Dark Zone, Warhammer, Star Trek and others in here. I’m reminded of the very impressive sci-fi spaceship comparison chart by […]
Doubles up on gigantic: A review of Shipstar
Shipstar is the follow on to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford’s Bowl of Heaven. Unusually for a sequel, it’s a much better book. The action picks up in the aftermath of Bowl of Heaven and the humans are in deep trouble. They’ve found this gigantic spaceship-thing built around a star and have learn the hard […]
Short film: Strange Alloy
Strange Alloy is a self-produced short film from Loïc Bramoullé. It took two months to make and shows a dinosaur-dragon creature explore the ruins of an abandoned human city. Based on images of Myanmar the film looks wonderful but we’re left wondering how we let things go so terribly wrong. Would you risk a game […]
Snowpiercer TV series optioned
There is a third Snowpiercer comic coming and Geek Native’s already shared a sneak preview. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, we might get a TV series. Tomorrow Studios has optioned the rights, based on the 2013 Chris Evans film, to a TV series. Josh Friedman will write the script. Previously, Friedman has worked on […]
These people were thrown into a real-life sci-fi adventure
Have you ever watched a TV show and just felt the characters did everything wrong? As a gamer you’d navigate the dangers of the plot far better than they did? Users of Chatroulette – where you log in to have a video chat with a random stranger – found themselves thrown deep into a first […]
What’s more dangerous? Belief or bullets: A review of Slow Bullets
Slow Bullets is a novella from Alastair Reynolds. The sci-fi is set at a time where humanity has expanded to very many planets but split into two. A war rages between the Central Planets and the ones of the Periphery. The government uses a device embedded into its soldiers and people to record their identity […]
