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New Tech Dept: Iron Sky "Dark Side of the Moon" Base

This is so old and weird, it's new! A 21st Century scifi comedy on Hitler's apocryphal 1945 Dark Side of the Moon UFO base...In 2018 they're coming back.

James Cameron on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (VIDEO)

It's beyond a movie—it's a spiritual experience. You have to submerge yourself in it with the idea that Kubrick's intent was to make us understand our relationship with the universe. The more you watch it the more questions it asks.

Leonardo DiCaprio on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey

Douglas Adams We Miss You! Will There Ever Be Another "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"?

It has now been thirty years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragically die of a heart attack at the age of 49.

It has now been thirty years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragically die of a heart attack at the age of 49.

Retro SciFi: "Voyage to Jupiter" (VIDEO)

"Future Present" - Is Science Fiction a Religious Experience?

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Will Ridley Scott's New "Alien" Prequel Mimic William Gibson's Awesome Unfilmed Alien 3 Screenplay?

FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars -- eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship.  CLOSER...

William Gibson's "Alien 3" Screenplay

20th Century Fox is rebooting its "Alien" franchise with Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott set to return as director.

The film will be a prequel to the seminal 1979 film about an extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. The 1979 epic starred Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver. The new treatment will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal was generated by an empty ship to warn them.

Ridley Scott: "After 2001 -A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction is Dead"

In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at  special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien, announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre is dead -gone the way of Westerns.

Scott believes, as we do at The Daily Galaxy, that although the flashy special effects of block-busters such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell at the box office, that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s haunting 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is as fresh (and perhaps more relevant) today as the day it premiered.

The video at the end of the post -Kubrick 2001 -The Space Odyssey Explained- is a minor masterpiece in itself and is not to be missed.

1950's "Space Explorers" Sci-Fi Series Rediscovered (VIDEO)

It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. If you were a kid growing up in the 1950-1960's dubbed the "Space Race" era, you had the pleasure and fortune to watch the myriad of space shows and cartoons being broadcast on the air. Each morning, shows like Captain Satellite, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Video, Sheriff John, and even Romper Room with "Miss Connie" showed cartoons like: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Space Patrol, Fireball XL-5, Ultra Man, Rocket Man, Commando Cody, and the subject of this article... "The Space Explorers"

Kurt Vonnegut: Human Life as a Space Voyage -A Galaxy Insight

"I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."

 

Spoken by Eliot Rosewater to a group of science fiction writers in Vonnegut's underrated masterpiece, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.

 

"Jumper" -Teleportation Comes to Life at MIT in New Sci-Fi Thriller

In the science fiction-action-thriller Jumper, a genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

New Tech Dept: Iron Sky "Dark Side of the Moon" Base

This is so old and weird, it's new! A 21st Century scifi comedy on Hitler's apocryphal 1945 Dark Side of the Moon UFO base...In 2018 they're coming back.

James Cameron on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (VIDEO)

It's beyond a movie—it's a spiritual experience. You have to submerge yourself in it with the idea that Kubrick's intent was to make us understand our relationship with the universe. The more you watch it the more questions it asks.

Leonardo DiCaprio on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey

Douglas Adams We Miss You! Will There Ever Be Another "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"?

It has now been thirty years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragically die of a heart attack at the age of 49.

It has now been thirty years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragically die of a heart attack at the age of 49.

Retro SciFi: "Voyage to Jupiter" (VIDEO)

"Future Present" - Is Science Fiction a Religious Experience?

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Will Ridley Scott's New "Alien" Prequel Mimic William Gibson's Awesome Unfilmed Alien 3 Screenplay?

FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars -- eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship.  CLOSER...

William Gibson's "Alien 3" Screenplay

20th Century Fox is rebooting its "Alien" franchise with Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott set to return as director.

The film will be a prequel to the seminal 1979 film about an extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. The 1979 epic starred Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver. The new treatment will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal was generated by an empty ship to warn them.

Ridley Scott: "After 2001 -A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction is Dead"

In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at  special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien, announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre is dead -gone the way of Westerns.

Scott believes, as we do at The Daily Galaxy, that although the flashy special effects of block-busters such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell at the box office, that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s haunting 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is as fresh (and perhaps more relevant) today as the day it premiered.

The video at the end of the post -Kubrick 2001 -The Space Odyssey Explained- is a minor masterpiece in itself and is not to be missed.

1950's "Space Explorers" Sci-Fi Series Rediscovered (VIDEO)

It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. If you were a kid growing up in the 1950-1960's dubbed the "Space Race" era, you had the pleasure and fortune to watch the myriad of space shows and cartoons being broadcast on the air. Each morning, shows like Captain Satellite, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Video, Sheriff John, and even Romper Room with "Miss Connie" showed cartoons like: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Space Patrol, Fireball XL-5, Ultra Man, Rocket Man, Commando Cody, and the subject of this article... "The Space Explorers"

Kurt Vonnegut: Human Life as a Space Voyage -A Galaxy Insight

"I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."

 

Spoken by Eliot Rosewater to a group of science fiction writers in Vonnegut's underrated masterpiece, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.

 

"Jumper" -Teleportation Comes to Life at MIT in New Sci-Fi Thriller

In the science fiction-action-thriller Jumper, a genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.