(1) EXACTLY.
https://twitter.com/pnh/status/678309964369235968
(2) NO SERVICE. Geek Bar Chicago has posted an announcement that anyone discussing Star Wars spoilers before Christmas will be asked to leave.
The folks at Geek Bar have been extremely stoked about the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” even offering customers a discount if they show their ticket stubs. But that’s also forced the bar to instill a strict no-spoilers policy, so strict that they’ll boot fans out of the bar if they ruin the movie for other customers. They even posted a sign on the bar’s front door as a warning to guests who blab about important plot lines.
(3) TOLKIEN’S LANGUAGES. John Garth observed on Facebook:
Among this quarter’s crop of additions to the Oxford English Dictionary is “waybread” – a coinage by Tolkien, whose first civilian job was as an assistant lexicography at the Dictionary. Never mind inventing Elvish languages: he’s still helping to invent the English one.
Around 500 new words, phrases, and senses have entered the Oxford English Dictionary this quarter, including phablet, waybread, and bank of mom and dad. You can read more about the new and revised words and meanings in this article by Jonathan Dent, Senior Assistant Editor of the OED
(4) FREEDOM. David Brin does threat analysis in “Who Controls the Internet” at Contrarian Brin.
The End of the Internet Dream? Ever since Congress passed Al Gore’s bill, around 1990, setting the Internet free to pervade the world and empower billions, repressive governments have complained, seeing their despotic methods undermined. And yes, democratic governments have often muttered: “Why’d we go and do that?” as their citizens became increasingly rambunctious, knowing and independent-minded!
As we’ll see below, the ruling classes in undemocratic lands have been striving to adapt, and showing real signs of success. So frets Jennifer Granick who was keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015 – a hacker’s conference. “In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that.”
(5) RECOMMENDATIONS. Rocket Stack Rank has published a consolidated list of short-fiction recommendations for the 2016 Hugo Awards.
These are divided by category (Novella, Novelette, and Short Story) and result from combining the recommendations of eight different reviewers.
In email, Gregory N. Hullender answered the obvious question head on:
So is it a slate? I don’t think so. The buckets are alphabetical by title, and none of the top few totals to exactly five. Also, we’ve gone out of our way to show people how to (legally) get copies of all these stories; no one can accuse us of urging anyone to vote without reading.
(6) AUTOMATED CODE WRITING. Platinum Rule, The Code of Conduct builder supplies appropriate language based on the user’s answers to basic questions.
However, I found it would quit working when I reached the question about sponsors, which means it’s more a curiosity than anything else.
(7) BEAR INTERVIEW. Suvudu interviews Elizabeth Bear, co-author of An Apprentice to Elves.
SUVUDU: Elizabeth, it’s a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk with you. You and Sarah Monette wrote one of my favorite short stories, “Boojum”, which I’ve raved about for years. Stumbling upon the Iskryne series was a real treat. How did the two of you meet, and what is it that first got you working together?
Elizabeth Bear: We were introduced by a mutual friend on livejournal because we were both interested in Elizabethan Theatre. I was working on the book that eventually came to be called Ink and Steel, and she was writing her dissertation. We kind of stuck, and we started writing some collaborations to blow off steam from our allegedly real work.
(8) THE BLUE MARBLE REDUX. NASA has released a new high-resolution Earthrise image.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon.
“The image is simply stunning,” said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The image of the Earth evokes the famous ‘Blue Marble’ image taken by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17, 43 years ago, which also showed Africa prominently in the picture.”
(9) LOCAL STAR WARS. The BBC explores the question “Could a war in space really happen?”
In the past the nuclear balance between the US and the USSR helped to prevent war in space. The modern world is more complex and already some 60 countries are active in space. So is a war involving attacks on satellites now becoming more likely?
Millions have been enjoying the Hollywood version of conflict in distant parts of the universe as the new Star Wars film is released. It’s enjoyable escapism – space conflict is, after all, nothing to do with reality. Or is it? According to military analyst Peter Singer of the New America Foundation, “the idea of… fighting in space was once science fiction and now it’s real”.
Space wars may not involve intergalactic empires or spacecraft zapping each other. If they occur they are likely to be focused on things that matter hugely to all of us – satellites.
(10) LASERS AT WAR. “US Air Force planes armed with laser guns soon and maybe shields too” asserts Marie Singer at Market Business News.
US Air Force planes could be armed with Star Wars type laser guns by the end of this decade, and maybe shields that protect aircraft from incoming missiles and bullets, says the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which is scheduled to demonstrate the technology by 2020.
Larger aircraft are already able to carry laser weapons fit for their size. However, developing effective and usable laser technology for the smaller warplanes is more challenging. Apart from being small enough not to undermine the fighter jet’s agility, they need to be accurate and effective when travelling at supersonic speeds.
(11) Today In History
- December 19, 1960 – NASA’s first successful launch of a Mercury Redstone rocket. (Via io9.)
- December 19, 1986 – The Little Shop of Horrors musical remake, was seen for the first time on this date. Both Martin Scorsese and John Landis were attached to direct before the job finally went to Frank Oz. The original had an unknown actor playing in the title role, Jack Nicholson.
(12) Today’s Birthday Boy
- Born December 19, 1975 – Brandon Sanderson
(13) FORWARDING ADDRESS. Jeffrey A. Carver has moved his blog Pushing a Snake Up a Hill. Click the link and you’ll discover where.
(14) BANDERSNATCH REVIEW. Sherwood Smith reviews Diana Pavlac Glyer’s new book in “Bandersnatch—writing and writers’ groups” at Book View Café.
In The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, (which I talked about here) Diana Pavlac Glyer established herself among the foremost Inklings scholars. It’s one of those rarities, a deeply academic book that is also immensely readable.
That book proved that the Inklings really were a collaborative group, and not a bunch of lone geniuses who got together regularly to read bits then retreated to their man caves for more solitary labor.
In Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings, she shows how they did it. I reviewed the book specifically over at Goodreads, but in this post I’d like to use the book as a springboard to write up some thoughts about writing groups and different meanings of collaboration, as this is a subject (or net of subjects) that I always like discussing.
(15) THE BOOK OF PUPPY. Matthew Foster’s Welcome to the Doomsphere: Sad Puppies, Hugos, and Politics was released in Kindle form on December 17.
After several years of unrest in science fiction fandom, a gang of authors under the banners Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies came to town to change the Hugo awards and perhaps publishing, and to turn over a few tables. Regular fandom responded, with many of the major names in F&SF literature being drawn into the brawl. What followed was cheating, lies, insults, rape and death threats, challenges to duel, letters to the police, harassment, boycotts, racial slurs, accusations of censorship, and according to one major Pup author, sodomy…so much sodomy.
For nearly six months, the best authors of our generation stopped writing books and started arguing. Was it the culture wars entering literary science fiction? Was it mainly White, mainly male fans trying to turn back the clock? Was it an attack on freedom of speech? Was it revenge for past slights or a cunning plan to sell a lot of books?
Foster told his Facebook followers the book has already received the first of what he predicts will be many one-star reviews.
(16) THE DOCTOR. I didn’t know any Antonelli apologists before Dr. Mauser raised his hand in “The Antonelli Affair” at Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas.
If one takes the position that Gerrold is merely an internet blowhard, and that he doesn’t actually mean any of it to take place outside of his fevered imagination, then contacting the police over an internet crank was probably taking things too far. And to Lou’s credit, he did what any proper gentleman should have done, he admitted his mistake (such as it was) and apologized.
His apology fit all of the criteria I’ve spelled out before for what makes up a proper apology. He laid out exactly what he had done, owned it, admitted that his actions were inappropriate, made it right by retracting his police complaint, and promised to not do it again. He did not try to justify it by saying anything about what Gerrold had said that concerned him enough to think a police report was necessary. That would be trying to shift blame, and not proper for a true apology.
Mr. Gerrold graciously accepted the apology, and in any civilized society, this would be the end of the issue.
Of course, this is not a civilized society we’re talking about, this is Fandom.
In any case, the SJW side of fandom rose in coordinated furor over this revelation, making all kinds of demands for Lou’s head, literally and figuratively.
Dr. Mauser finds fault with everyone else’s behavior but Antonelli’s, who immediately abandoned the self-imposed penance he announced at the time: “I need to ponder the hurt I have caused. To give me time to think, after Sasquan I am taking a half-year hiatus from attending any conventions and/or submitting any fiction.”
(17) THE LONGEST DAY. Robert Kerr shot this picture at the Hollywood and Highland Metro Red Line station on the way home from seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens yesterday.
Jedis on the subway. Photo by Robert Kerr.
John King Tarpinian’s caption: “After a hard day at Padawan school even Jedi need to take the subway back to Coruscant.”
(18) POINT AND SHOOT. Grim humor from Cheezburger – a comic “That Wouldn’t Be a Long Movie – Sean Bean as 007 in….“
[Thanks to Will R., Iphinome, Michael J. Walsh, Soon Lee, Steven H Silver, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Will R.]
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If I recall correctly, Phil Foglio refers to the Girl Genius books as “Gaslamp Fantasy”.
Yeah, Katya Folio didn’t like the term “steampunk”, and, at the time, didn’t think it fit very well (the “punk” part mostly, I think). However GG has been a big influence on the steampunk that followed, and these days, “punk” seems to be being used more to mean “has this technology developed to ridiculous extremes”, more or less. Thus, modern steampunk is basically pseudo-Victoriana with steam-powered AI and such. (Which is a perfectly reasonable description of GG.)
For classic punk style steampunk, I think Mieville’s Bas-Lag cycle might qualify, as might Michael Swanwick’s The Iron Dragon’s Daughter. Both of which I highly recommend, but I’m not sure anyone but me would call them steampunk. Especially these days. 🙂
Oh, and Mieville’s Railsea might count as dieselpunk in some weird alternate universe where I was in charge of labelling. 😉
A friend gave me one of Gail Carriger’s novels and while it was amusing, I wouldn’t recommend it. A lot tropes and a sense of humor very familiar to anyone who reads regency romances—which I do, so I’m not knocking them—just not what I want outside of a romance novel. More of a problem for me was the unthinking attitude towards the British Empire and the non-European world. There was no sense of the reality and horror of imperialism.
A Steampunk recommendation I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series. It’s much less known than it should be, probably because because it’s marketed as romance rather than SFF, but the worldbuilding is definitely SFF worthy. It’s also got a diverse cast, not just straight white Brits. There’s four books now plus a couple of short stories.
Potential trigger warning, the first and second book both have scenes featuring attempted sexual assaults.
Another Steam punk read is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series.
On a non SP not I just finished Seveneves and By God could that have used a trimming. Actually, no, not a trimming but at least shove a goodly portion of into appendixes. The only other thing I would say about it is I wish Grxyn unq orra ba gur zvffvba jurer gurl sbhaq Znqnzr Cerfvqrag Whyvn. Fur jbhyq unir bcrarq gur ungpu, fnj gur crbcyr vafvqr jrera’g nexvrf be zvffvba pevgvpny, fynzzrq gur ungpu fuhg naq gbyq Vil gung gentvpnyyl gurer jrer ab fheivibef naq ab ivgnzvaf naq vg jnf bxnl gb qebc gur cbq vagb er-ragel.
tintinaus: I just finished Seveneves and By God could that have used a trimming. Actually, no, not a trimming but at least shove a goodly portion of into appendixes. The only other thing I would say about it is I wish Grxyn unq orra ba gur zvffvba jurer gurl sbhaq Znqnzr Cerfvqrag Whyvn. Fur jbhyq unir bcrarq gur ungpu, fnj gur crbcyr vafvqr jrera’g nexvrf be zvffvba pevgvpny, fynzzrq gur ungpu fuhg naq gbyq Vil gung gentvpnyyl gurer jrer ab fheivibef naq ab ivgnzvaf naq vg jnf bxnl gb qebc gur cbq vagb er-ragel.
I am in heartfelt agreement with you on all of that. It was as if Stephenson had grown so enamored of all of his little world-building ideas and chain of events (however improbable or irrational many of them were) that he was not willing to sacrifice any of them in service of creating a well-written book with a tightly-knit plot.
I hate that this is such a common occurrence — that authors of formerly excellent books eventually become allowed to put out ponderous, sluggish messes because they are now Too Big To Edit.
JJ said:
Preach it my brother!
To make matters worse I read Seveneves just after finishing The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody. It has a giant section of the first part(about 1/4 of the total) of that could have been excised completely without hurting the story in the slightest.
Side note: It took Carmody 29 years to finish her Obernewtyn series and I picture her complaing to GRRM and Gaiman about her demanding fans they are all “Hey no! Talk to the hand, because I ain’t listening”
Xtifr on December 21, 2015 at 2:36 pm said:
Ahem: “Kaja Foglio” pronounced KAI-ya FOH-lee-oh
(Yeah, Kaja traded up from one difficult name to two when she married Phil.)
Trainpunk, put it together with Snowpiercer and voila! we have a genre.
Yay, I got a sentence – really, two phrases. 😉 A bit late, but here’s my spouse’s reasons for recommending the Soulless (etc.) series by Carriger:
“Well written smart main character with a sharp & witty sense of humor. A unique (to me) take on the vampire/werewolf/ghost genre.”
(He may have thought I was weird for asking for a short blurb. 😉 )
@JJ:
I’ve generally referred to that as ‘Grand Tour Syndrome’, where the author essentially writes a book where the primary purpose seems to be just to show off all the worldbuilding done. It’s kind of a variation on “I’ve suffered for my art (and now it’s your turn)” from the Turkey City Lexicon.
(Dave Duncan’s West of January was the book that made me come up with that term, though there’s a lot of the same thing in his The Seventh Sword books as well.)
Jenora,
Are you referring to the forth Seventh Sword book The Death of Nnanji? I read the original three back in the day and while a tad cluncky I thought they really worked.
JJ, Jenora Feuer: But it seems to me that Stephenson has always been like that. Has he ever written a book with a tightly-knot plot? Extravagant worldbuilding is what he’s known for, and what his fans like him for. So I don’t think this is a case of ‘too big to edit’.
Andrew M: But it seems to me that Stephenson has always been like that. Has he ever written a book with a tightly-knot plot? Extravagant worldbuilding is what he’s known for, and what his fans like him for. So I don’t think this is a case of ‘too big to edit’.
I loved Anathem and the Baroque Cycle and Diamond Age. The difference there is that in those he managed to stay on-point and within a realm of plausibility for degrees of Willing Suspension of Disbelief, whereas (in my opinion) he didn’t in Seveneves.
Jenora, I love your “Grand Tour Syndrome” description.
Andrew,
This is the first time the info dumps have been quite so egregious.
In Reamde, which I also thought was too long but still thought was okay, Stephenson would cut to a side character to see what they were doing and would include a bit of an info dump so the reader would understand the action and how it signified in the whole. He would do that a lot so the reader gets the dump in bite sized pieces, more easily digestible.
In Seveneves most of the second part is info-dump. The far future story is just under half the total length of the book, but Stephenson doesn’t get to the meat of it until the final seventh(or there about). Up until then it is just the POV character ambling through her life surounded by dump after dump. There is no urgency to the story until way too late.
And then there is a glaring error in craft. In previous books(as I aluded to above) there would be multiple POV characters. In the Far Future part of Seveneves we follow a single character around so as she sees things Stephenson can explain them to us. This is true till right near the end where suddenly the POV shifts to someone else for no discernible reason(although you figure out why later). It is jarring and at the time uncalled for.
I quite liked the first half of Seveneves(although the ending strained my level of disbelief a bit more than I liked), but the second half was a boring snoozefest. It could easily have been cut down, and if Stephenson still wanted to include all the detail he could have stuck in an encyclopaedic type appendix. I like those. I pretend to myself that no one else reads them so when I do I know more about the authors world than most. Plus in the right context they can be fascinating.
Edit: looks like JJ has done to tl;dr version
Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ve added them to my Amazon wishlist so (hopefully) will get around to them. I’ll admit I suspect I’m similar to Oneiros, and it’s the steampunk aesthetic that appeals to me (though I did like the Wheel of Worlds comics as a teenager). But looking forward to reading some. 🙂
@Peter J: I have Priest’s The Space Machine lying around somewhere. He’s perhaps my favorite sci-fi author, though there’s a lot I need to read by him still. Glad to see it recommended and I will move it further up my to-read list.
@tintinaus Edit: looks like JJ has done to tl;dr version
But doesn’t that make your explanation more Stephenson-ian?
::run away, run away!::
tintinaus: looks like JJ has done to tl;dr version
snowcrash: But doesn’t that make your explanation more Stephenson-ian?
Still chortling. 😀
I’m not chortling!
You got a good belly laugh from me;-)
@tintinaus:
I haven’t read the fourth book. And I will admit that I’m probably looking back on the original trilogy with eyes clouded by some of the annoyance I had with West of January, picking out things that only really seemed like flaws after more obvious examples of the problem showed up. There was, at least, far better justification for the circumnavigation happening in The Seventh Sword.
Haven’t read any Stephenson other than Snowcrash and Diamond Age, myself, so can’t comment too much on what’s normal for him.
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
RRRRRRRGH!
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
Two of the true classics of the genre. But as much as I love Metropolis, 2001 is one of the best movies ever, let alone one of the best SF movies.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
Empire probably has it, and it’s one of my all-time faves. But Blade Runner has more meat to it, is an amazing feat of world-building, and I saw it in the cinema this year 😀
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars narrowly edges this one
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
Metropolis had me riveted. 2001 had me wondering when it was going to stop. (Well, until the ending. I’m apparently the only one who likes the weird-ass ending but not the rest of it.)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Not an easy choice, but Bladerunner has a point where it starts getting really good, whereas Empire only has a few moments where it stops being really good.
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
Again a close call, but surprisingly, I’ve always thought Aliens was the film of these two that had more heart to it.
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Yes, I liked the fake Star Trek film better than the real Star Trek film. (There are, however, episodes of ST:TOS I would have voted above Galaxy Quest without a pause.)
Heh. At this very moment, it’s 1-1 in every single pairing.
Clearly you’re my copy from an alternate good universe
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Which of us gets the goatee?
Oh, wait, Mike Glyer used his time machine to retroactively make it 2-1 in every pairing!
1. Metropolis. I could rewatch this any day, but I’d be fast-forwarding through whole chunks of 2001.
2. Bladerunner. I’ve never bought the fan consensus that Empire is the best SW movie, and even with that stupid voice-over, Bladerunner works so perfectly on so many levels.
3. Star Wars. I’d vote Alien over Star Wars. I’d vote Aliens over Jedi. I can’t vote Aliens over Star Wars.
4. Ok, this had to happen. Galaxy Quest versus actual Star Trek. Uh… uh… uh… Pass.
While I’m rocking a full beard right now, I did grow a goatee one autumn and my Hallow’een costume that year was my evil twin.
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
::goes to have a drink. or many.::
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. 2001
2. Bladerunner
3. Star Wars
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Now that was just cruel.
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
Kubrick is sometimes accused of being cold, artificial, emotionless… and he made the perfect movie about space
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
neither good enough to progress
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Instead of going on a quest across the galaxy the crew of The Protector should have gone Star Trekkin’ across the universe.
Quarterfinals the second:
1. Metropolis
2. Oooch. Empire.
3. Star Wars – the original version, where Greedo doesn’t shoot at all.
4. Ye gads. Khan.
1. 2001
2. Bladerunner
3. Star Wars
4. Star Trek II
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Harrison vs. Harrison, as it were. The tears in rain finally give way to “I know.”
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
GAH!!
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sorry, as funny as the parody is, I gotta take the real thing.
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
Oy vey. I’ve listened to 11 PKD novels this year. So I am going to be on team PKD
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Never give up, because you have always been my friend
1. 2001 (1968)
2. Bladerunner (1982)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Abstain
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. 2001 (1968)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. Star Wars (1977)
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2001 (1968)
Two groundbreakers. I’ll take the earlier one.
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
I have a bad feeling about this. Are we going to have an all-Star-Wars final?
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
Aliens (1986)
Unfortunately, I’m not doing anything to stop that from happening….
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
There was *so much love* for fandom in that film….
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
2001 (1968)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The best Star Trek movie ever!
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1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
abstain
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Star Wars (1977)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Galaxy Quest (1999)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BRACKET – THE REAL QUARTER FINALS
1. DEATH TO THE MACHINES
Metropolis (1927)
2. THIS IS A BAD ONE, THE WORST YET
Bladerunner (1982)
“I am, and always shall be, two words.”
3. WE’RE DOOMED!
Aliens (1986)
4. THE KOBAYASHI MARU TEST
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)