Before heading off to Trinity Buoy Wharf on Sunday, we took in the monument to the early settlers of the colony of Virginia, who sailed in 1606 (if you remember, I took some photographs of a statue of the first Governer of Virginia, Captain John Smith, outside St Mary Le Bow Church in the City […]

One of my favourite science fiction films, the first ever to use extensive computer graphics in its production, is Tron. Made in 1982, it used ground-breaking technology to create a film that imagined a world seen from the perspective of computer programs. It starred Jeff Bridges, and was the first major outing for Bruce Boxleitner […]

SciFi.com have released a teaser for the next series of Battlestar Galactica – a recreation of Leonardo DaVinci’s ‘The Last Supper’. There are lots of clues about what might be happening in Series 4 and, when questioned, Ron Moore, the creator of the new series, said that the last Cylon is *not* present at the […]

The very talented artist, Dylan Meconis, has sketched a wonderful parody of the Battlestar Galactica cast. I’ve provided a few examples here as they’re my favourites; the Admiral and the President, who are so in love but can never express their desires for fear of the consequences, and the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-flying Kara Thrace aka […]

There was a special on BBC4 tonight celebrating the work of Gerry Anderson, starting off with SuperCar and ending with Space 1999. Many moons ago I was fortunate enough to be a friend of one of his nephews, whose flat in Birmingham was strewn with actual puppets from the various shows… not something you forget […]