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Starring Vin Diesel, Rahda Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David & Claudia Black A merchant ship carrying passengers in hibernation is struck by a meteor shower and crash lands on a desolate planet. The survivors (an eclectic group which includes a mercenary, an “antiquities dealer”, a group of Muslim pilgrims (and a psychotic killer with some …
Directed by Brian De Palma Starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O’Connell, and Tim Robbins Since the first trailers aired, Mission to Mars (M2M for short) has left no doubt that it’s not your ordinary “how would we get to Mars” flick. True, the movie does go to great effort to show us (more or less) …
B5‘s Jerry Doyle Makes a Run for Congress! Babylon 5, after five seasons and five telefilms, has gone into retirement. But Jerry Doyle (who played Security Chief Michael Garibaldi on the show) isn’t sitting still. He’s running for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 24th Congressional District. As a Republican. We contacted Jerry (“Call …
First aired on CBS on 20 February 2000 Starring Matthew Modine and Kelli Williams No spaceships. No aliens. No phasers. No mysterious plagues. No super-villains bent on world domination. Flowers for Algernon is perfect science fiction. It ought to be: it’s based on Daniel Keyes’ 1959 Hugo Award-winning short story (and 1966 Nebula Award-winning novel-length version). …
[Originally posted in March and April 2000 at SciFiDimensions.com. Dr. Bova died in November 2020. For more about Ben Bova and his lifetime of work, visit BenBova.com] Ben Bova is a busy man. He’s has been a journalist, a teacher, a marketeer, an editor, and, oh yeah…a writer. Having spent many successful award-winning years as …
[Originally posted in March 2000 at SciFiDimensions.com.] Greg Bear is a bit of a prodigy in the science fiction world. He published his first story when he was sixteen, and by the time he was a grown-up he was getting published regularly. He’s had a long succession of immensely popular books that aren’t afraid to …
[This short essay marks the beginning of my adventures in online publishing. Posted on February 4, 2000, it was the very first bit of content for my online science fiction magazine SciFiDimensions.com (it was variously and awkwardly branded as scifidimensions, scifidimensions, etc., before finally settling as SciFiDimensions). Over the course of ten years, SciFiDimensions.com provided thousands of …