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Interesting Fact: Peter Orullian's on the Cover of Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes!

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Don’t believe me?  See for yourself: You can click the image to see a larger version.  There aren’t many large pictures of Peter Orullian on Google, but you can clearly see that his beautiful face was the inspiration for the white-haired sea ninja on the cover of Sam Sykes‘ book.  One might also wonder whether Sykes took inspiration from Peter’s progressive rock voice… A smart listener would wonder why we’re mentioning these two authors at all.  To which we say:  that’s our magic secret.

Torture Cinema Polls

Torture Cinema Poll #2: Pick Our Next Movie!

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You know the drill:  pick one movie you’d like us to review at the end of June for our Torture Cinema feature!  We promise to hate you no matter which one you choose. Feel free to suggest titles for future polls in the comments.  We’re itching to know which movies you hated or have heard were bad!

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: What new scifi/fantasy TV series are you looking forward to (or currently enjoying)?

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Apparently the folks down in Hollywood have decided that maybe regular people kind of like science fiction and fantasy!  Yay for geek and nerd-dom!  At least, that’s how it appears based on the sheer number of new science fiction and fantasy based television series that are slated to come out this year.  Granted, the folks at SyFy did just cancel Stargate: Universe, but they also have a new Battlestar Galactica series on their books, so maybe they’re not completely evil. With all these new shows coming to the tube, we want to know which ones you’re looking forward to (after the fold):

Announcements and Errata

Call for Guest Posters: Authors, Bloggers, Fans!

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That’s right!  We’re looking for guest posters for our show.  Here’s what we’re looking for: About genre — rants, history, observations, questions, etc. Discussions of craft — if you’re an author, we’d love to have your guest posts on all things related to your writing. What inspired you to write X? What are you favorite books?  Etc.! Interviews Book reviews Movie reviews Basically, we’re looking for anything and everything to fill up our week with interesting content.  And you never know:  we might bring you onto the show to rant with us (this is more a probably than a might, if we’re being honest). Send an email to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com and let us know what you’d like to contribute.  If you have an idea for something that doesn’t fit into any of these categories, let us know!  We’ll probably be interested.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: How can Space Opera keep itself relevant?

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Shaun asked me to do the question of the week a few hours ago, and I accepted, even though he forgot my birthday. So the question I pose this week is: how can space opera stay relevant? Space opera, in many ways, is the heart of SF. A decent space opera extrapolates current technologies and theories past their breaking points, muse on alien culture and philosophy, contrasts the everyman with the extraordinary, and heaps on that good ol’ sensawunda until it topples over and spills some into other subgenres. That’s what a decent space opera should do, in my opinion, but they’ve been doing it for decades. In this time of the naysayer slandering SF, saying it’s a “dying medium” because of some garbage about “SF catching up with reality,” what can space opera do to say, “Au contraire Monsieur (or Madame) Naysayer,” and proclaim its relevance? How can a subgenre over 100 years old reinvent itself for our increasingly cynical and overly fantastic world? Respond please. P.S.:  I didn’t forget his birthday.  He never told me that his birthday was this weekend.  Totally Adam’s fault.

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