SF Universe

Month: April 2014

  • PLANETS OF WONDER edited by Terry Carr

    TITLE: PLANETS OF WONDER – A TREASURY OF SPACE OPERA EDITED BY: Terry Carr CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 1976 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 189 pages, ISBN: 0-8407-6526-6 CONTENTS: Introduction by Terry Carr \”Dust of Gods\” by C. L. Moore (Weird Tales, August 1934) \”We Guard the Black Planet!\”…

  • Sci-Fi on Television (Part 3)

    The 2000s have provided a relative scarcity of good new telefantasy that I\’ve actually liked (in comparison to, say, the 1960s, 1970s or 1990s), and the unnerving policy of cancelling potentially good series (both UK and US) before they even get off the ground still continues to hang over every new television sci-fi creation. In…

  • Some Sunday Evening Movies

    Another quiet, relaxing Sunday afternoon/evening, sitting in, just watching sci-fi films on television and DVD. Sunday has become one of my favourite days for films. There\’s almost always something good on for sci-fi fans on a Sunday. I started off this afternoon watching two-in-a-row on Film4. The first was an \”oldie-but-goody\”, AT THE EARTH\’S CORE,…

  • Doctor Who: 50 Years in Space & Time (Part 9)

    Here\’s the next part of my look back at the Best of the Bunch from Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary: The Night of the Doctor – mini-episode prequel The Last Day – mini-episode prequel 8. The Night of the Doctor Commemorating Doctor Who\’s 50th Anniversary, and the first of two very good mini-episode prequels to The…