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more about #robertjsawyer more comments → Brodka: regrettably: Stick me in one of these and let an annoying side-kick carry me around. more » van_line: No Robot Man from the Doom Patrol?? what about just a brain (The Brain) in a jar with his talking ape (Monsieur Mallah)?? Maybe one of the greatest ... more » AshThePirate: Briareos anyone? more » thexpert is no ones lapdog: Are these really better in any way than the evil plan of IG-88 to download himself into the deathstar? Imagine actually BEING Darth Vader's HOUSE! He ... more » TonyRockyHorror: Takeshi Kavacs more » Blank-Mage: Ghost in the Shell must be mentioned. The masses demand it! more » Terrorsaur - Five Six: You guys are so unoriginal. I would put my brain in a fucking cookie jar. more » MargaretMoony: You know, I really want to read Skinned. more » Pessimippopotamus: What, no Fortress Maximus? (The bigass thing in the background) more » dumanue: so no mention of Ghost in the Shell at all? and yes I know Ghost was mentioned in the list you did a while ago, but that Ghost was SAC: SSS, not the ... more » Cash907Censored: Not even a passing mention of the Battle Angel Alita universe, where all the best cybernetic bodies come from. Sad. more » cletar: "abandon your meat sack!" more » phoenix: So much love for including 8th Man in this roundup, don't even joke. But! No mention of full prosthetic bodies from the mind of Masamune Shirow? Gho... more » xoforoct wishes he lived in chasm city: Where's the robots from "Diamond Dogs, Turqouise Days?" more » icelight: "Weirdly, the scene where Katherine McClellan's robot body gets switched on has inspired some really odd slow-mo Youtube fetish vids." Are there comp... more » -
#robobodies
10 Best Robot Bodies To Load Your Brain Into
You can't be beautiful and immortal until you abandon your meatsack! Surrogates, opening Friday, shows a culture that's gone over to robot avatars. But here are ten other universes where you could abandon your flesh for a shiny, perfect robo-body. More » -
#flashforward
FlashForward Stars Act Out The "Dancing On The Ceiling" Video
FlashForward's premise, about a mysterious blackout that grants everyone a glimpse of the future, is kind of hard to convey in advertising. So what do you do? Stick some furniture to the walls, and play "We're falling sideways!" More » -
#obituary
R.I.P. Phyllis Gotlieb, The Mother Of Canadian Science Fiction
Phyllis Gotlieb was a struggling poet, battling writers block in the 1950s, when her husband suggested she try her hand at science fiction. The results led to a series of novels about telepathic societies and star-cats, winning Canada's highest award. More » -
#triviagasm
Science Fiction's Greatest Legal Minds - Revealed!
If the countless works of science fiction can agree on one thing, it's that the future isn't perfect. And, on the rare occasion when disputes can't be solved with an epic starship battle, it's time to bring in the lawyers.
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#quoteoftheday
Computers Smarter Than Humans Are Inevitable This Century, Says Sawyer
We're bound to spawn computers smarter than us in the next ninety years or so. So we may as well start hoping they have our best interests at heart, says Wake author Robert J. Sawyer. More » -
#flashforward
ABC's Flash Forward View Of The Future Is More Like An Acid Flashback
Teaser trailers for David S. Goyer's highly anticipated Flash Forward TV show kicked off last night during Lost, with a short barrage of blipverts that confused and confounded us. What did you see? More » -
#flashforward
Can Robert J. Sawyer Save Us From A TV Wasteland?
With many science-fiction shows facing cancellation, our best hope is that next fall's programming includes another Fringe or Lost, a thought-provoking hit. So it's good news that ABC just greenlit Robert J. Sawyer's Flash Forward.
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#flashforward
Robert J. Sawyer Gives Us A Glimpse Of Our Televisual Future
Author Robert J. Sawyer has been blogging from the set of Flash Forward, the new show based on his novel, and he says it's looking good to debut on ABC next fall. Minor spoilers... More » -
#books
Books Are The New Television Pitches
One of the year's breakout hits, True Blood, is based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books. And now, suddenly authors like Robert J. Sawyer, M.J. Rose and John Updike are spawning TV pilots. More » -
#martinlutherking
Martin Luther King In Science Fiction
Today's the day when we celebrate the life of visionary leader Martin Luther King, Jr. But the civil-rights legend is also an important figure in science fiction... as an influence, and an occasional character. More » -
#crapfuturism
Larry Niven's Iron-Clad Rules For Predicting Future Tech
How can you predict future technologies? You can't, according to five great science fiction authors quoted in the new CIO Magazine. But at least you can predict what types of problems will crop up. -
#fermiparadox
Why Aren't Aliens Talking to Us?
Several of the most imaginative minds in science fiction (and science) gathered at this year's Readercon to discuss a fundamental question of our existence: Why does it seem like we're alone in the universe? Writers Jeff Hecht, Steven Popkes, Robert J. Sawyer, Ian Randal Strock, and Michael A. Burstein offered their recommendations for the best fictional explorations of this question, commonly known as the Fermi paradox. See their picks, and find out more about one of the greatest paradoxes in human existence. More »
