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Dredd 2012

by storiesbywilliams on January 23, 2013 in Comics, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged 2000 AD comics, 300, 3d, arcology, block, cape town, cersei lannister, dredd 2012, dredd 3d, film adaptation, game of thrones, graphic novel, hall of judges, HBO, johannesburg, john wagner, judge anderson, judge dredd, karl urban, keannu reeves, lena headey, ma-ma, mega city one, neo, oliva thirlby, peach trees, pete travis, post-apocalyptic, recyce team, sarah conner chronicles, science fiction, slo-mo, special effects, sylvester stallone, the judges, the matrix, vulcan cannons

Hey all! My apologies for my absence of late, but life has been very busy on the teaching front. Cold season always brings big stretches of busy work, and I’ve been on call steadily for the past three weeks. Luckily, I find myself with a day or two to catch up on other things, and […]

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Awesome Sci-Fi Movie Mashup!

by storiesbywilliams on December 14, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi, Video and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, aliens, Blade Runner, ET, i robot, mashup, sci-fi movies, Star Trek, Star Wars, superman movie, the matrix, the watchmen, Transformers, Tron, tron: legacy, V for Vendetta, wall-e

Behold, the cool scenes from every science fiction movie ever made, all in one video. Well, not necessarily all of them; in fact, true geeks may noticed that some of their favorites might be lacking. However, I think you’ll agree, this is a pretty good sampling of a wide array of classic films. In fact, […]

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Arcology in Popular Culture

by storiesbywilliams on October 10, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged BAMA, Blade Runner, chi-town, coruscant, foundation, habitats, hives, judge dredd, mega city one, peter f hamilton, rifts, robert silverberg, RPG, Star Wars, the matrix, the night's dawn trilogy, the sprawl trilogy, the world inside, trantor, tyrell corporation, urban monads, warhammer 40k, Zion

Hello and good evening. Welcome to the third and final installment in my Arcology series, addressing the use of the concept in various popular culture sci-fi franchises. After researching the term and learning all about Paolo Soleri and the concept he created, I’ve come to see that his vision of future cities where the needs […]

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

by storiesbywilliams on September 2, 2012 in Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged aleph, All Tomorrows Parties, angie mitchell, biochips, biotech, bobby newmark, continuity, count zero, cyberspace, factory, gentry, Idoru, lady 3jane, maas-neotek, molly millions, mona lisa overdrive, Neuromancer, sally shears, science fiction, simstim, tessier-ashpool, the bigend trilogy, the bridge trilogy, the lao, the matrix, the solitude, the sprawl, the sprawl trilogy, veves, villa straylight, Virtual Light, William Gibson, wintermute

Welcome back to the BAMA*! At long last, I’ve come to the end of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy. For those who don’t remember, this began with Neuromancer and Count Zero many months ago. I had hoped to include this third and final review in short order, unfortunately other books got in the way. And by […]

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Happy Canada Day!

by storiesbywilliams on July 1, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged Alliance, Babylon 5, biopod, bioport, Canada Day, Canada's 145th birthday, canadian sci-fi, ConSec, cybernetic implants, cyberpunk, cyberspace, david cronenberg, dina meyer, Dolph Lundgren, don mckellar, ephemerol, existenz, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Inception, jennifer jason leigh, johnny mnemonic, jude law, keannu reaves, last night, Lo-Tek, michael ironside, molly millions, NAS, NEB, nervous attenuation syndrome, Neuromancer, peter weller, revok, robocop, sally shears, sandra oh, sarah polley, scanners, science ficiton, science fiction movies, Screamers, sirius 6b, Takeshi Kitano, the matrix, the sprawl trilogy, Udo Kier, vale, wayne's world, wetwire implants, William Gibson, yakuza

Hello and welcome to my Canada Day post! As it is the True North’s national birthday – commemorating the day when the original provinces came together and agreed on Confederation, the first act of national building and quasi-declaration of independence – I thought it fitting that I do a post honoring Canada’s contribution to the […]

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The Post-Apocalypse in Sci-Fi (Part II)

by storiesbywilliams on June 30, 2012 in Books, Movies, Reviews, Sci-Fi and tagged Akira, alas babylon, apocalypse, Battlestar Galactica, bsg, charlton heston, Colonel Shikishima, commander adama, cormac mccarthy, Doon Harrow, Fort Repose, HK's, I Am Legend, jack london, Jeanne DuPrau, John Conner, judgement day, Lina Mayfleet, mr. anderson, mutants, neo, neo-tokyo, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, omega man, pat frank, post-apocalyptic, Randy Bragg, robert neville, sarah conner, Shotaro Kaneda, skynet, Suzanne Martel, terminators, tetsuo shima, the builders, the city of ember, The City Under Ground, the day, the espers, the matrix, the one, the resistance, the road, the scarlet plaque, The Terminator, Will Smith, wwIII

Akira: This futuristic tale takes place in Neo-Tokyo, an ultra-modern city that was built on the ruins of the old after an incident touched off World War III. This is a major them in the movie Akira and manga it was adapted from. Throughout the entire story, there is a pervasive sense of shock and […]

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Giant Robots (vol. 3)

by storiesbywilliams on May 27, 2012 in Giant Robots, Movies, Series and tagged amalgam, apu, arm slave, Armored Mobile Master-Slave System, at-at, at-st, battle of endor, battlemech, battletech, chewi, clans, dann of thursday, dragoons, dreadnoughts, enhanced powered armor, ewoks, exoskeleton, f.e.a.r., full metal panic, GERWALK, gun x sword, Hogarth Hughes, immortal, inner sphere, macross, mech, mecha, mithril, nova (black hawk), omnimech, overtechnology, powered armor, robotech, rockwell maine, sentinels, space marines, squiddies, Star Wars, starcraft, the battle of zion, the iron giant, the matrix, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, van, variable fighter, vf-o pheonix, x-men, x-men: the last stand, zentraedi, Zion

APU: Starting off today’s list is the Armored Personnel Unit (or APU) from the Matrix trilogy. Making it’s first appearance in Matrix: Reloaded, it’s real c0ntribution came in Revolutions when every single unit in existence was used in the defense of Zion. Hydraulically operated, the APU was run by a single operator who sat in […]

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Even More Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on May 3, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, Babylon 5, buck rogers in the 25th century, chigs, colonial marines, death star, draconia 1, dropship, eclipse, emperor palpatine, excalibur, executor, firefly, force storm, hovership, leia organa, luke skywalker, nebuchadnezzar, nostromo, rebel alliance, rogue squadron, SA-43 Hammerhead, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sentinels, serenity, space above and beyond, spaceball one, spaceballs, Star Wars, starfury, sulaco, super star destroyer, superlaser, terror weapon, the empire, The Force, the matrix, thunderbolt, tractor beam, turbolaser, UD4L Cheyenne Dropship, white star, white star destroyer, x-wing

Dang it, this is fast growing into a theme of its own, outgrowing the whole “conceptual” thing by leaps and bounds! But there are always more contenders, and people have been nice enough to leave suggestions with me. So the list must go on, taking into account more spaceships, aircraft an assorted vehicles that come […]

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AI Graph

by storiesbywilliams on April 24, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A.I., agent smith, AI, AI graph, artificial intelligence, ash, bender, bishop, Blade Runner, c3p0, cortana, daleks, david, doctor who, dune prequels, erasmus, futurama, HAL 9000, halo, I, matrix reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, Neuromancer, omnius, r2d2, rachael, robot, roy batty, sonny, Star Wars, Terminator, terminatros, the matrix, wintermute

Inspired by what I learned from my little romp through the world of AI, I’ve come up with a graph that depicts the general rules I observed. Basically, there are two guiding principles to the world of AI’s and science fiction. On the one hand, there’s their capacity for emotion and second, there is their […]

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Robots, Androids and AI’s (cont’d)

by storiesbywilliams on April 23, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged A.I., agent smith, AI, alan tudyk, artificial intelligence, Blade Runner, Bridgitte Moynahan, case, dalek, david, davros, deckard cain, dr susan calvin, dr. lanning, dr. who, evil robots, exterminate!, i robot, Isaac Asimov, kill all humans, laurence fishburne, laws of robotics, mecha, molly, morpheus, neo, Neuromancer, Nexus 6, pinocchio, positronic brain, replicant, replicants, roy batty, Rutger Hauer, Sci-Fi, science fiction, skaro, sonny, stephen spielberg, the matrix, the source, thinking machines, three laws of robotics, turing laws, turing police, tyrell, tyrell corporation, VIKI, wachoswki brothers, Will Smith, wintermute, you will be exterminated!

And we’re back with more example of thinking machines and artificial intelligences! Daleks: The evil-machine menace from Doctor Who. Granted, they are not technically robots, more like cyborgs that have been purged of all feeling and emotion. But given their cold, unfeeling murderous intent, I feel like they still make the cut. Originally from the […]

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