Category Archives: Daily Rants

Simak’s Dystopia, or a World Gone to the Dogs

April 28th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

City by Clifford D. Simak There are any number of well known authors in science fiction (e.g., Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Vonnegut), and I’ve written about two of them in previous articles. There are other significant authors who are not as well known, however, and I thought I’d introduce one of them through one of his […]

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Beginner’s Guide to the Guild Season 1

April 27th, 2011 | Posted in Websites

It doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned online gamer or if you’ve never been on a quest. When you watch The Guild, a web series about a group of gamers whose online partnerships cross over into the real world, all you can do is sit back and watch the hilarity ensue. The Guild was created […]

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Meet us on Saturday at:

April 25th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants
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The Summer of Our Contentedness

April 21st, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

  Move over Shakespeare and Steinbeck, after a discontent winter (can anyone say, “Skyline”?), we are quickly approaching what has all the trappings of being a dynamic summer of Sci Fi Movies. Yet both the media and blogosphere are abuzz with general  suck y attitudes, fanboy complainers, and bad vibes aplenty. Well, Dome is here […]

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We’ll Miss You Sarah Jane

April 21st, 2011 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact, TV

I began my lifelong love affair with Doctor Who in ’96, right after the made-for-tv movie aired and I was twelve years old. It didn’t take me long to discover old episodes of the show would play every Friday night from 10 to midnight. It wasn’t a school night so I was allowed to stay […]

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A (Partial) Robert A. Heinlein Reading Primer

April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

” Robert Heinlein ” Oil on Panel © 2009 Donato Giancola Recently I put together a reading list of Robert Heinlein’s books for one of the other contributors to SFSN. He didn’t realize that many were thematically related, and that there was a “best” order in which to read them, which I pointed out. He […]

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One Singular Sensation

April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact, Technology

So I was driving down the Main St. of my little town, minding my own business and rocking out to some NPR when, quel surpise!  I noticed the billboard above had been that had been put in just that day.  Oh, the horror!  My granola eating hippy liberal bleeding heart nearly stopped.  A Family Radio […]

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Writers To Watch Out For:

April 18th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

Over the past months we here at Sci Fi Saturday Night have been talking to self-published authors in various stages of their work. There are those like Tracy Hickman, who began in traditional publications and moved slowly into select elegant self-publishing projects. There are the success stories, like HP Mallory who began as self published […]

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National Library Week for Geeks!

April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

National Library Week kicked off yesterday and continues (shockingly!) all week. Dates to note are Tuesday, which is National Library Workers Day (just so you know, Zombrarian loves chocolate and works in a library, no pressure…), and Thursday, which is Support Teen Literature Day (remember, lots of classic Sci Fi/Fantasy started off as teen literature). […]

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Happy Birthday Supergirl!

April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

According to Action Comics #252, April 11th, 1959 is the day on which Supergirl came to Earth. Kara Zor-El was a supporting player in the DC Universe and was given  her own series on two occasions in issues 72-74 and issues 82-84. After the “Infinite Earth” saga, where she sacrifices her life, She was once […]

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