Wednesday Knights Blog

Truer words have never been spoken than by John Scalzi today when, while talking about bad designs in Star Wars and add addressing the argument that Star Wars is really fantasy, not science fiction, John says:
The failure mode of science fiction is NOT “fantasy,” it is “bad science fiction.”
Amen. Star Wars is science fiction, even [...]

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Sam Carter

Tonight I decided to watch StarGate ‘Ark of Truth” onDemand.  This movie was fairly well done.  Typical Us versus the Ori.  Basically like an extra long episode of the series, one of the good episodes and not one of the extra fluffy should never had been filmed ones.
We see the return of Sarah Strange [...]

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In StarGate, each use of the gate requires 7 chevrons – 6 for the points in space and a 7th for point of origin.
In “Fifth Race,” O’Neill modifies the gate dialing program to travel to the Othalla in the Galaxy Ida. This required the use of an 8th Chevron. The 8th [...]

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In memory of Gary Gygax, the guys at Slice of SciFi interviewed Dave Arneson, the cocreator of D&D. It’s a nice interview. As an added bonus, Michael Stackpole stops by from his normal cohosting duties at Cover to Cover to join in on the interview. It was great to having someone with Michaels gaming creds [...]

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Ok, it looks like we were not the only ones to come up with an alternative use for the transporter.

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A humorous take on things going wrong in the Star Wars Universe.
My favorite paragraph:
Speaking of backups, the city planet of Coruscant has a 24/7 multi-level traffic jam that puts the Los Angeles freeways to shame. Tellingly, young Anakin seems to have a case of repulsorshift rage. One minute, you’re cutting off slow-moving speeders, the next [...]

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‘With this one we’re going for the broad audience to bring people into “Trek” for the first time,’ Roberto Orci says.

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A cool site for funny pictures characterizing RPG’s.

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I have talked about Escape Pod before. As I said before, if you are not listening to it, you should be. Episode 93 has a story from Robert Silverberg called Now +n, Now -n.
Although I typically do not like stories involving any sort of time travel, I really enjoyed this story. I guess that’s not [...]

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In October, John Scalzi placed an advance reader copy of his new book, The Last Colony, up for auction. The auction was to benefit the John M. Ford Book Endowment. In his post announcing the auction, Scalzi added additional bonuses (additional books or ARCs) if certain bidding levels were reached. The final level was $5,000. [...]

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