Divergent is a sci-fi series set in a dystopian Chicago by Veronica Roth. In the future society is divided into fice factions, each one representing a virtue or aspect of humanity; the Erudite (the intelligent), Dauntless (the brave), Candor (the honest), Amity (the peaceful) and Abnegation (the selfless). All 16 year olds take a test […]
Smoking space robot monkey: A review of Aama – The Smell of Warm Dust
The Smell of Warm Dust is the first part of a five part series from Self Made Hero called Aama. The original sci-fi adventure is written by Frederik Peeters and due out late in November via stores like Amazon. In many ways Aama has two beginnings; both mysterious. The first beginning has Verloc waking up […]
Short film: Azarkant
Written and directed by Andrey Klimov, Azarkant is a project done in spare time and on a home computer. It’s a sci-fi story of a team of astronauts who encounter an abandoned spaceship drifting by a mysterious planet. Inside? A least one killer robot acting out orders from its long dead pilot and perhaps something […]
Robocop looks much better in this trailer
Worried about the new Robocop movie? Does the black cyborg look not suit? Got to admit; despite all the great names this movie is in my concern-zone. This trailer helps though. It helps a lot. I can forget a little about the original and get more engaged with what Sony Pictures has planned for the […]
Knights in shining Armani: Corporia RPG
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/504288855/corporia-the-rpg-where-camelot-meets-corporate [Back this Campaign] This is an interesting looking RPG. I mean that literally as the Kickstarter pitch shows the book will use photographs and photo manipulation rather than the traditional illustration. That’s quite unusual. We’re told that the photo art will include heroes of both sexes and multiple races. The knights in shining Armani […]
Wordless fantasy: Butterfly Gate review
Butterfly Gate is all sorts of different. The main way in which Butterfly Gate will be different from the other comics in your collection – unless you’re something of a master – is that Butterfly Gate has no text. There’s neither dialogue nor description. In other words; all you get are image panels. Impressively, Butterfly […]
Short Film: Windmills
This is a graduation movie made at the Georges Melies school and which won Best Animated Film at Boston Sci-Fi in 2012. It’s the story of a young woman in a horrible world filled with ruin, dark and rain. Her father can barely stand to do anything after the death of his wife. Together, however, […]
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #3 The Alien gloves
This is more than just a mask but less than a full costume so let’s allow our sterotypical alien into today’s The 12 Masks of Halloween. This is a mask that you need to cut at the neck in order to fit in to. The idea is that you get the cut right, the mask […]
10 trillion years later: A Drifting review
Drifting is a sci-fi from the novelist Matthew Drury and journalist and comic strip creator Dave Cook. Ryan Valle, the Star Wars card game artist who works with Fantasy Flight Games, is involved in the project too. That’s an interesting creative team. Can they put together an interesting science fiction adventure? Drifting has an incredibly […]
Short film: Keloid
In the near future countries have become dependant on a network of artifical intelligence devices. As man wages war so does AI come to the machines of war. Political hierarchy divides society into factions and AIs gain ground as efficiency becomes everyone’s goal. Keloid asks what happens when we test to see whether key powers […]
