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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel SO BORED AND ANGRY. If Fritz Leiber's 1965 Hugo winner proves anything, it's that the award isn't a stamp of guaranteed quality. More »
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A pirate ship slices through space in concept art from the lost Dune movie of the 1970s. Artist Chris Foss crafted covers for some of science fiction's greatest books, reshaping how we see spaceships and robots. Check out our gallery. More »
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Today's spoilers include film-makers talking about their adaptations of the classic Lensmen novels and the Cowboy Bebop anime series. Plus David Tennant talks Doctor Who, and there are new True Blood and Scott Pilgrim pics. Plus Impact and Virtuality spoilers. More »
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Forget about story, or character development. When it comes to selecting your science fiction reading material, you want a story that spans millions of years, if not billions. Or why not trillions, while you're at it? A truly grand space saga needs a lot of elbow room across history to unveil its cosmic events. So which novel, or series of novels, spans the longest time period? We rank them below. More »
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There are two ways of taking a science fiction classic and bringing it to the screen: You can bring it up to date, setting it in the present day and revamping the characters accordingly, like Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds. Or you can set it in the era when it was written, and painstakingly recreate the time and place that gave birth to it, like Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie. Which route do you think works better for movies of classic novels? More »
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The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »
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