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Video Game-Turned-Movie Channels 9/11 Fears
Movie deals aren't just for comic books that nobody's read any more — now they're for video games that nobody's played as well. Fox has optioned a science fiction game still in development, Zero-G, about a new "never before seen" superweapon that destroys a major U.S. city. It sounds like it's coming a bit late to the 9/11 anxiety table, but could be a fun disaster/thriller movie anyway. Zero-G is being produced by Union Entertainment, which also worked on The Darkness and Sin City. [Sci Fi Wire]
Movie deals aren't just for comic books that nobody's read any more — now they're for video games that nobody's played as well. Fox has optioned a science fiction game still in development, Zero-G, about a new "never before seen" superweapon that destroys a major U.S. city. It sounds like it's coming a bit late to the 9/11 anxiety table, but could be a fun disaster/thriller movie anyway. Zero-G is being produced by Union Entertainment, which also worked on The Darkness and Sin City. [Sci Fi Wire]
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Devorah Sperber has some pretty fancy reasons for thinking that Star Trek should be converted into complicated works of abstract art — she loves the idea of the "mirror worlds" and layers of reality in classic Trek. But seriously, Sperber, you don't need to intellectualize with us. We know why it's important to have a glittery bead curtain with Spock on it. She's got some other cool creations as well, all part of a show opening tomorrow at Caren Golden Fine Art in NYC that the artist says is partly about her response to 9/11.
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Star Trek Art Show in NYC Is a Response to 9/11
Devorah Sperber has some pretty fancy reasons for thinking that Star Trek should be converted into complicated works of abstract art — she loves the idea of the "mirror worlds" and layers of reality in classic Trek. But seriously, Sperber, you don't need to intellectualize with us. We know why it's important to have a glittery bead curtain with Spock on it. She's got some other cool creations as well, all part of a show opening tomorrow at Caren Golden Fine Art in NYC that the artist says is partly about her response to 9/11.
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science fiction politics
Cloverfield has everybody talking about the way science fiction is dealing with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but that giant monster movie is hardly the first SF creation to tackle terrorism, high-tech surveillance, and governments run amok in the post-9/11 era. As the United States has cracked down on civil liberties at home, and invaded nations abroad, in the name of national security, a crop of futuristic and fanciful tales have sprung up to satirize and justify "the war on terror." These tales generally deal with one of five crucial post-9/11 themes, which we've enumerated (with examples) for you below.
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Five Ways 9/11 Changed Science Fiction
Cloverfield has everybody talking about the way science fiction is dealing with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but that giant monster movie is hardly the first SF creation to tackle terrorism, high-tech surveillance, and governments run amok in the post-9/11 era. As the United States has cracked down on civil liberties at home, and invaded nations abroad, in the name of national security, a crop of futuristic and fanciful tales have sprung up to satirize and justify "the war on terror." These tales generally deal with one of five crucial post-9/11 themes, which we've enumerated (with examples) for you below.
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