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Of Faster-Than-Light Travel

by storiesbywilliams on July 10, 2012 in Books, Cool Stuff, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged albert einstein, alcubierre drive, Amazing Stories, ark, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Colleen Doran, controlled singularity, doctor who, Dune, einstein's theory of relativity, Eye of Harmony, faster than light, faster-than-light travel, foldspace, foundation universe, FTL, guild navigator, hard sci-fi, heart of gold, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, holtzman drive, holtzman engines, homeworld, hyperdrive, hyperspace, hyperspatial drive, i robot, Ian Douglas, infinite probability drive, infinite probably drive, Islands of Space, ixian machine, ixian navigator machine, John Campbell, jump drive, jump gates, Light, M. John Harrison, Macross/Robotech, Mass Effect, microsoft, Miguel Alcubierre, Orbiter, spice, spice mutant, Star Carrier, Star Trek, Star Wars, starcraft, stargate, starship troopers, Stephen Baxter, subspace, tardis, technical error, time-space dilation, warp, warp bubble, warp drive, warp field, Warren Ellis, wing commander, wing commander privateer, wormhole

It’s a popular concept, the fictional technology that could help us break that tricky light barrier. And it’s not hard to see why. The universe is a really, really, REALLY big place! And if we ever want to begin exploring and colonizing our tiny corner of it – and not have to deal with all […]

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Futuristic Guns

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

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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Cool Ships (volume IV)

by storiesbywilliams on May 6, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a call to arms, alpha quadrant, ancients city ship, Arthur C Clarke, Babylon 5, babylon 5 crusade, Battlestar Galactica, captain janeway, city ship, cylons, deimos class corvette, delenn, distant origins, dominion war, drakh, drakh raider, freespace, freespace II, galactica, gamma quadrant, generational ship, jem'hadar, kilrathi empire, londo, pegasus, rama, rendezvous with rama, romulan, romulan empire, romulan warbird, Sci-Fi, sci-fi geeks, space above and beyond, Star Trek, star trek deep space 9, star trek ds9, star trek voyager, stargate, stargate atlantis, terran confederation, terran-vasudan alliance, the colossus, the enterprise, tiger's claw, twelve colonies, uss defiant, uss saratoga, viper mark II, viper mark VII, voth, voth city ship, white star, wing commander

Back with a fourth installment. As usual, I am indebted to people for making suggestions and offering critiques. Funny thing, these lists seem to be getting longer and more diverse the longer this series goes. But I guess that tells you something about the world of sci-fi. No shortage of material, and kind of like […]

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More Cool Ships

by storiesbywilliams on April 30, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a-wings, admiral ackbar, Alien, aliens, alliance cruiser, b-wings, Babylon 5, battle of endor, battle of yavin, biometric ship, borg cube, borg sphere, captain sheridan, chig cruiser, chig fighter, chigs, commander ivanova, cool ships, cyborg, darth vader, delenn, divine order, earth alliance, earth alliance destroyer, firefly, FTL, great war, his divine shadow, home one, hyperdrive, hyperspace, kai, lexx, lt. warren keffer, mon calamari cruiser, multi-vector assault mode, narn heavy cruiser, nostromo, omega-class destroyer, organic ship, organic technology, prometheus-clas ship, ragesh 3, saucer section, Sci-Fi, science fiction, second death star, serenity, shadow fighters, shadow vessel, shadow war, space above and beyond, stanley tweedle, star destroyer, Star Trek, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, star trek voyager, star trek: first contact, Star Wars, stargate, stargate:atlantis, super star destroyer, the daedalus, the death star, the executor, tie bomber, tie fighter, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, x-wings, y-wings, zev bellringer

And I’m back with more examples, in part because people had some suggestions but also because I found the last list lacking. I mean, you can’t suggest a concept as big and as awesome as cool science fiction ships and only provide a handful of examples. It’s just not decent! So here’s installment number two […]

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The Alien Graph

by storiesbywilliams on March 21, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, alien graph, alien versus predator, aliens, arachnids, Avatar, AvP, Babylon 5, cardassians, centauri, contact, Covenant, drac, enemy mine, ferengi, firstborn, goa'uld, halo, kilrathi, klingons, na'vi, narn, Predator, protoss, romulans, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, starcraft, stargate, starship troopers, the borg, the dominion, the inhibitors, the mimbari, the ori, the Q, the shadows, the vorlons, vegans, vulcans, wing commander, xenomorphs, zerg, zombie graph, zombie movies

Behold! After a few days of contemplating what I said in the Ancient Aliens post – you know, about how alien’s technology and moral capacity are often interrelated in sci-fi – I realized I needed to put it into graphic form. And as I said in that post, if we are to consider technological advancement […]

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Cool Weapons!

by storiesbywilliams on March 15, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged blue lightsaber, bounty hunter, combi-stick, crysknife, darth vader, Dune, Frank Herbert, george lucas, green lightsaber, hellsing, jabba the hutt, jedi consul, jedi gaurdian, jedi sentinel, johnny mnemonic, kris knife, lasgun, lightsaber, luke skywalker, ma'tok staff, mace windu, monomolecular wire, Paul Atreides, personal shields, Predator, predator blades, predator disc, red lightsaber, Samuel L Jackson, sith, Star Wars, stargate, stone burner, thermal detonator, vibroblades

Last time, I spoke (at length) about all the awesome firearms that come to us from a variety of science fiction franchises. But let’s face it, there’s a lot more than just guns to speak of! In fact, part of the genius of sci-fi is in how it is constantly inventing entire arsenals of weaponry, […]

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Ancient Aliens (Updated)

by storiesbywilliams on March 11, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 3001: Final Odyssey, alien vs. predator, aliens, ancient astronauts, ancient humanoids, Arthur C Clarke, Babylon 5, chestbusters, facehuggers, first ones, forerunner, forerunner artifacts, halo, Hunters, lorien, master of orion, monolith, Predator, Predator 2, protoss, queen alien, shadows, stanley kubrick, Star Gate, Star Trek, starcraft, starcraft II, stargate, stargate universe, the covenant, the forerunners, The Goa'uld, the guardian, the halo devices, the orions, tma 1, tycho monolith, vorlons, xel'naga, xenomorphs, z'hadum, zerg

And I’m back with another conceptual post, hard at work exploring the ideas that run deep in the grand genre that is sci-fi. And this is one that I find particularly cool, mainly because it’s just so freaking existential! I mean what is there that can possibly throw a wrench into our collective anthropomorphism more […]

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