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What Happened to the Sci-Fi Channel?

It's not often that someone on a message board performs a public service, but over on the official Sci-Fi Channel boards, a poster known only as "SavageMind" does that very thing with a post called "What has happened to the Sci-Fi Channel?" More »

1:13 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Graeme McMillan
9,613 views, 130 comments

disco futurism

Donna Summer is the Mother of Science Fiction

Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" was the futuristic dance music song of the late 1970s. But she wasn't the only disco goddess to get futuristic. Disco historian Tim Lawrence told io9 that the music that got the Village People in a sweat was also science fictional to its core. Not only did disco borrow from science fiction, but also changed the dorky spaceship-obsessed genre forever. The secret love affair between disco and Space 1999 after the jump. More »

9:00 AM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By charliejane
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