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Sci-Fi Drugs

by storiesbywilliams on June 4, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Books, Movies, Series, Cool Stuff and tagged Brave New World, William Gibson, Dune, Paul Atreides, spice, bene gesserit, Philip k dick, Soma, nuke, A Scanner Darkly, PKD, keannu reaves, the bridge trilogy, snow crash, Babylon 5, bester, the guild, guild navigators, L. Bob Rife, g'kar, londo mollari, psi cops, psi corps, substance d, slow death, new-path, leto II, robocop, cain, robocain, robocop 2, OCP, World State, minority report, the spice melange, can-d, neuroin, S-D, tom cruise, robert downey jr, woody harrelson, winona ryder, a gram is better than a damn, sumerian tablet, enki virus, tower of babel myth, war on drugs, old detroit, red ramrod, white noise, blue velvet, black thunder, PreCrime, precognitives, prescients, dust, dancer, pcp, mdma, cocaine, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, layouts, perky pat, sharing, drug culture, drug subculture, drug counter-culture

The other night, I had one of those moments. It was a moment where I found myself thinking about a cool concept and realized that it would make a damn fine post. It’s also one that interests me quite a bit and has even influenced my own writing. So as quickly as I could, I […]

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Futuristic Guns (vol 3)

by storiesbywilliams on May 27, 2012 in Cool Guns, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged .50 cal sniper rifle, acsw, AICW VX3, ares fmg, assault rifle, automatic grenade launcher, battlefield 2, bullpup rifle, Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Command & Conquer, CornerShot gun, CSI: Miami, district b13, Fallout, FAMAS, flashpoint, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Future Weapons, fx- 05 xiuhcoatl, ghost recon, grenade launcher, hk g36, iaws, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action., Max Pain 3, metal storm, Modern Warfare, modern warfare 2, modern warfare 3, Newsmakers (Goryachie Novosti), Operation Flashpoint 2, perfect dark, QLB - 06, rainbow six, Red, robocop 2, Shadowrun, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, standoff, Steyr AUG, uc - m21, wanted, War Inc. Battlezone, xm 307, xm25, xm8

AICW VX3: First up is the proposed Advanced Infantry Combat Weapon by Australia’s Metal Storm Ltd. Combining a 5.56mm assault rifle with MS patented stacked ammo caseless ammo grenade launcher, this weapon is truly futuristic! In fact, the concept is already catching on. Since it is still in the prototype phase, none of these weapons […]

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Cool Cyborgs (updated)!

by storiesbywilliams on May 24, 2012 in Movies, Series, Cool Stuff and tagged Star Wars, Terminator, Blade Runner, ghost in the shell, cyborgs, arny, darth vader, luke skywalker, lightsaber, jedi, the borg, roy batty, Motoko Kusanagi, National Public Safety Commission, Section 9, sarah conner, tyrell corporation, cylon raider, robocop, robocop 2, terminator 2, t-1000, t-800, t-101, 8 man, cybermen, cyber-conversion, assimilation, you will be assimilated, nexus 6 replicant, more human than human, alex murphy, OCP, cyber terrorists, cyber warfare, cybernetic, cylon centurion, skin job, hybrid

8 Man: Always good to start with a classic, don’t you think? Especially one that really doesn’t get the attention it deserves. In addition to being Japan’s first cyborg superhero, this 60′s anime character was also the inspiration for Robocop. You heard me right! Apparently, the main character was a Detective who was murdered by […]

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Futuristic Guns

by storiesbywilliams on May 23, 2012 in Cool Guns, Future, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged bullpup rifle, calico m960, daewoo k11, Die Another Day, district b13, equilibrium, firefly, fn f2000, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, ghost recon, halo, hk xm29, kriss vector, modern warefare, mossberg 500, ntw-20, Objective Individual Combat Weapon, OICW, P90, PDW, pp-2000, Predator, Predator 2, red dwarf, robocop, robocop 2, sniper rifle, SOCOM, space above and beyond, stargate, stargate atlantis, Steyr AUG, Terminator Salvation, The Interceptor (Zapreshchyonnaya Realnost)., the running man, Universal Soldier: The Return.

Many of these will look familiar, and for good reason. In addition to being futuristic looking, they also happen to be real! For many years, science fiction movies and series have used weapons of legitimate manufacture in order to inspire a futuristic feel. Calico M960: Here’s a gun that has been featured in several movies, […]

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More Giant Robots

by storiesbywilliams on May 22, 2012 in Books, Giant Robots, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged battletech, cain, dragoons, giant robots, gundam wing, h.g. wells, immortals, mad cat, mad dog, madox 01, martians, mech, mechas, metal gear ray, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, metal gear sons of liberty, metal skin panic, mobile suit, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, robotech, starcraft, stephen spieldberg, templar, tripod walker, war of the worlds, z gundam, zentraedi, zentraedi battlepod

Welcome back. I had a lot of fun with the last installment, so here’s another! Updated, expanded, and with plenty of additions. Ah, screw it! Let’s get to it. Immortal: Back to the Starcraft universe for a sequel. Much like its predecessor, the Immortal was a vehicle for severely wounded Templars who still wanted to […]

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