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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, SF Weapons 101: An Introduction 3 months ago
Well, theoretically, it could be feasible. That is, if we can assume a technology that allows for the creation of black holes. These objects are born in so violent of circumstances, it is difficult to imagine an […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, SF Weapons 101: An Introduction 3 months, 1 week ago
Science Fiction from its earliest incarnations has always featured some sort of futuristic weaponry. From H.G. Wells’ martian heat-ray to the most modern charged particle beam of Alastair Reynolds, SF weapons […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, A Way To End Ebook Piracy? 3 months, 1 week ago
Canada had something similar for decades. We have a blank media tax which is levied on all blank CDs, DVDs, the now obsolete cassette tape. At one point, the government was going to levy this tax on hard drives […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, A Way To End Ebook Piracy? 3 months, 1 week ago
Obviously you are overly sensitive and incapable of understanding anything I have written. Study after study supports my arguments. And those songs I “stole” convinced me to purchase that artist’s entire catalogue […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, A Way To End Ebook Piracy? 3 months, 1 week ago
Games that require a persistent Internet connection are a terrible idea. I refused to buy Diablo III for that very reason. Why should I be required to be online when I am playing in single player mode? What about […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, The Top Ten Roleplaying Games of All Time 3 months, 1 week ago
Nice list, but I am disappointed to see you failed to list the Amber roleplaying game (obviously based on Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber and sequels). Not only was this RPG based on one of the most interesting […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, Christopher Nolan’s Inception as Shamanic Psychodrama 3 months, 1 week ago
A few weeks ago, a friend and I were discussing which films should be considered science fiction and which shouldn’t. He claimed comic book/superhero movies should not be called SF. I claimed that Inception isn’t […] -
D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, Piracy 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Upon reflection, there are a couple of other things I should point out.
First, the segment of the population that pirates books is actually quite small and there is a disproportionate large effect because the […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, Piracy 3 months, 2 weeks ago
You may want to take a look at this, a new study released on the effects of “piracy” on purchasing. While ebooks may not yet be showing the same effect, that has more to do with the size of the audience rather […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, “I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part IV: To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Over the last three weeks I have discussed the sources and causes of Science Fictions self-esteem problem. The genre’s inability to shed it’s pulp roots and ongoing pulpishness, the relative obscurity of SF to the […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, “I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part III: Robots, Reboots and Remakes. How Hollywood Kills Serious Science Fiction 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I didn’t forget (conveniently or otherwise) about Moon or, what I assume you mean to be, the 2002 release of Solaris (with George Clooney).
Moon was a British film, not a Hollywood production, which received a […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, “I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part III: Robots, Reboots and Remakes. How Hollywood Kills Serious Science Fiction 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The only time the public pays attention to Science Fiction is when that great machine of mass marketing and “entertainment” called Hollywood inundates the collective consciousness with that most dreaded of […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar commented on the post, The Year’s Worst Movies – 2012 3 months, 3 weeks ago
What, no Total Recall? Surely that was one of the worst films of 2012. I am also surprised that you make no mention of Prometheus either. And to be honest, I would but The Dark Knight Rises on the “list of biggest […]
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D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part II: You Actually Read That Crap? 3 months, 4 weeks ago
“I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?”
Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part II: You Actually Read That Crap?
Science Fiction has never had an easy time with the literary […] -
D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, “I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part I: Who Reads SF Anyway? Practically No One. 4 months ago
“I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?”
Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part I: Who Reads SF Anyway? Practically No One.
Science Fiction has a self-esteem problem. Almost […] -
D. Nicklin-Dunbar wrote a new post, There and Back Again, or, How I Got Scared Into Science Fiction 4 months, 1 week ago
Science Fiction is one of the great loves of my life. I have spent some thirty odd years reading, critiquing, discussing, collecting, watching and dreaming it (I won’t talk about writing it, at least not yet). I […]
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