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This Week’s Voicemail Show!
This is the show for our inquiring fans and listeners and their voicemails, emails. We want to hear your comments and feedback… No, really, we do! Pay no attention to how much Mike grumbles about them…you know - that guy sitting in the dark corner with all the knobs [...]

Parade Magazine and Slice of SciFi collaborated for The Ultimate Star Trek Quiz. Think you know about Captains Archer, Pike, Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Janeway, or all the other important members of their crews? Now is your chance to test your Trek knowledge with our 50-question quiz.
Also available is Parade Magazine’s exclusive interview [...]

Proving that there are still places in the world where pre-modern culture humankind exists - members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru in a May, 2008 photo distributed by Survival International. The organization calculates that [...]

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Showgirls In Darko-land

May 30, 2008   || Category: Film News | 2 Comments

“Saved By the Bell” alum Elizabeth Berkley who made her big screen debut showing all in the overly-hyped flop of the 20th Century in “Showgirls” is joining the cast for the sequel to “Donnie Darko.”
Titled “S. Darko,” this next film continues the bizzare tale in the Darko family tree and picks up seven years after [...]

Source: SCI FI Wire
SCI FI Channel announced summer premiere dates for new and returning series, including “Ghost Hunters International,” “Stargate Atlantis,” “Eureka” and a new version of “Scare Tactics.”
The new third season of “Scare Tactics” kicks off July 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with two back-to-back episodes. New host Tracy Morgan (NBC’s “30 Rock”) [...]

Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear are ending the first season of Shadow Unit with a serialized novel set during the week it appears on the web. Through Saturday (May 31), new installments are being released each night at 7 PM CDT that cover the past 24 hours in the lives of the characters.

Shadow Unit [...]

Written by: Michael Logan for TV Guide
Cylon Centurions courtesy NBC Universal

This is officially the coolest frackin’ sci-fi collectible ever — and it’ll only set you back $7,900 (USD)!
Fans of Battlestar Galactica can now purchase their very own 7-foot-tall, museum-quality Cylon Centurion complete with stereo sound and a menacing red LED-scanning eye.
“This is not a mass-produced [...]

Actor/writer/producer and director Walter Koenig made a visit on “The Que?,” Marc Wade’s video feature from Roddenberry Productions.
Walter Koenig has had an illustrious career that has spanned four decades and shows no sign of ending anytime soon. His most memorable roles were Starfleet officer Pavel Chekov on Star Trek the original series and seven [...]

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City of Ember

May 30, 2008   || Category: Film News | 1 Comment

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights - underground. But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing… and the great lamps that illuminate the
city are starting to flicker. Now, in a race against time, the citizens must search Ember for clues that will unlock [...]

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SciFi.com Introduces Fidgit

May 30, 2008   || Category: Gaming | Leave a Comment

Submitted by: Jeffrey Willerth (FarPoint Media Managing Director - West Coast Office)
The SCI FI Channel and SciFi.com are launching consumer game site Fidgit today. Fidgit’s fun and factual games will feature the language and attitude of gamers, but will be designed to appeal to both genre and non-genre game players.
The Web site will include game [...]