When Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune adaptation arrived in cinemas, fans of Frank Herbert’s massively influential sci-fi series were impatient to see how their favorite characters had been interpreted for ...

Somehow, the sequel trilogy has returned. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 brought with it some exciting announcements for fans of ...

Space combat has always been tenuously portrayed in science fiction; often as if the ships were operating in atmosphere. This is partly due to the popularity of Star Wars, where X-Wings and TIE ...

Frank Herbert wrote the original Dune novel in 1965 and almost immediately people started trying to adapt it for the screen. Alejandro Jodorowsky spent millions not making it and many others came and ...

Imagine the boundary between science fiction and science fact disappears, just for a few minutes. In that time, you can reach through and pick out a piece of tech from the Trek-iverse to keep. What do ...

Regulars on the Farscape subreddit will already know that Owen Davies has completed his epic AI Remaster Project, releasing all 88 episodes – plus the two-part Peacekeeper Wars miniseries – to YouTube ...

Farscape is anarchic and alien, sexy and savage – and that’s exactly how it sounds. The frantic stab of the first few seconds is like a needle scratch to shock you from your stupor: listen up, normal ...

Beloved by fans and critics, Stargate Atlantis succeeded in building a following independent of its parent, as well as satisfying an entire generation who had grown up with Stargate SG-1 with big-name ...

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For movie geeks like us, it’s rare to happen upon a film you know little or nothing about. But that was exactly what happened in the late 1990s in a flat in North London when I came back one night ...

Pat McClung is a man who found himself in the right place at the right time. After a stint in the US Army as a young adult – where he worked on telephone switching equipment – he became a model shop ...

There’s always been a fair amount of contention around Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like anything else that becomes as popular as it did (especially with anime, which attracts its fair share of possessive ...