Science Fiction

Charlie Stross on Singularity 1 on 1: The World is Complicated. Elegant Narratives Explaining Everything Are Wrong!

by Socrates
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Today my guest on Singularity 1 on 1 is award winning science fiction author Charles Stross. It was his seminal singularity book Accelerando that not only won the 2006 Locus Award (in addition to being a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and on the final ballot for the Hugo Award) but was also at least in part responsible for my launching of SingularitySymposium.com and SingularityWeblog.com. During my conversation with Charlie we discuss issues such as: his early interest in and love for science fiction; his work as a “code monkey” for a start up company during the first dot com boom of the late nineties and the resulting short sci fi story Lobsters (which eventually turned into Accelerando); his upcoming book Rule 34; his take on the human condition, brain uploading, the technological singularity and our chances [...]

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Brian Malow on Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Movies

by Socrates
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Last month I posted Brian Malow‘s comedic and yet still serious take on the technological singularity. For all the fans of Philip K. Dick out there, today I am posting Malow’s new 6 min video run-through the long list of now classic science fiction movies inspired by Philip K. Dick’s novels and short stories. Together with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick was among the most influential science fiction authors of the 20th century. The long list of Dick’s works turned into successful movies include classics such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, the Impostor, and, most recently, The Adjustment Bureau. If you missed any of the movies listed by Brian Malow in the video below I suggest you remedy this as quickly as possible. The key, though, is to not limit yourself to the [...]

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Fact or Fantasy – Is Today’s Science A Hard Act For The Sci Fi Writer To Follow?

by Peter Kinnon
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On joining Singularity Weblog I signed up for the free e-book Accelerando. Which I will not, after all,  be downloading! It is in all probability an excellent example of its kind. So my rejection in no way a reflection of the quality of the book. It is simply that I discovered it to be a novel and (unless dosed very heavily with humor a la Douglas Adams) I just don’t read Sci Fi any more. You see, I am an old guy. Having had a great thirst for books of all kinds from my boyhood right through to my early thirties I eventually became bored with fiction in general and SF in particular. All the while intrigued by works such as The Selfish Gene as well as the study of chemistry and the fun of fooling around with electronics, I [...]

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Top 5 Underrated Sci Fi Movies

by Socrates

A short video listing and commenting on the top 5 most underrated science fiction movies of all time by Steven James Snyder, Techland‘s resident movie geek.

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