Hello again techies and social studies experts! I’m sorry, I assume those are the only two kinds of people who would enjoy these posts Regardless, I love doing them, mainly because it gives me a chance to exercise a little critical thinking when it comes to some of the most popular franchises of science fiction. […]
Cool Ships (volume V)
by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Books, Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, arrakis, artificial hand, Babylon 5, baron harkonnen, Battlestar Galactica, colonial raptor, cool ships volume 5, cylon virus, cylon war, darth vader, delenn, duke leto atreides, Dune, Dune universe, earth alliance, earth force, earth-minbari war, ellen ripley, fly-by-wire, foldspace, freespace 2, FTL, guild heighliner, gunstar, heart of gold, holtzman engines, hospital ship, improbability drive, jones the cat, luke skywalker, LV-426, medical frigate, minbari cruiser, minbari federation, navigator, nebula-b frigate, nostromo, Paul Atreides, quantum theory, rebel alliance, sathanas juggernaut, shadow war, sharlin-class cruiser, sheridan, spice tanks, Star Wars, the black hole, the colussus, the cygnus, the deimos, the last starfighter, the nostromo, the shivans, Weyland Yutani, wireless, xenomorph, zaphod beeblebrox
Back again! More ships, more designs, more franchises too. Like I said last time, there’s just no limit when you get right down to it. And in the course of doing my homework on cool sci-fi concepts, I’ve found that there are hundreds of franchises out there that I’ve never even heard of before. Of […]
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Dune, the movie (and miniseries)!
by storiesbywilliams on July 14, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 1984, alejandro jodorowsky, arrakis, arthur p jacobs, baron harkonnen, chani, david lynch, david lynchs dune, dean stockwell, dino de laurentis, doctor yueh, duke leto, duke leto atreides, duncan idaho, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune miniseries, feyd rathau, francesca annis, Frank Herbert, frank herberts dune, fremen, geidi prime, gurney halleck, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, jurgen prochnow, kaitain, kyle maclachlan, lady jessica, max von sydow, Muad'Dib, patrick stewart, Paul Atreides, princess irulan, reverend mother, richard jordan, sandworm, Sean Young, spice, sting, thufir hawat, weirding modules, weirding way
Wow… when I first started doing these movie reviews, last week, I knew that at some point I’d have to cover the book-turned-movie that inspired me to write! And truth be told, I actually saw this movie before reading the book. Yes, Dune was just like Lord of the Rings for me, a film that […]
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