Open Thread -- "Heroes" Fall Finale

"Heroes" has reached the halfway mark of the current story arc "Redemption." New episodes will return in January of 2010 when the show moves to Mondays at 9 p.m. EST. But we won't have a voicemail show between now and then, so we thought we'd give you a chance to sound off about the final [...]

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Why Outer Space Not Interesting - Fan Email Comment

I am a bit behind on my listening but would like to comment on the theories on why outer space is not as interesting to the mass population. I think it is in part that we shifted from test pilots and military to teachers and scientists. The loss of anyone is a great loss, but [...]

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A New Online Series Called Loner

I love the news on sliceofsci, but I also love finding out about sci-fi series based on-line, which you do not do alot of sadly. I have been told about the new CG series 'LONER' at www.lonerseries.com by my facebook group. I have just watched the first two episodes free at the website and I [...]

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"You Guys Are Viral!"

Dear Slice of SciFi, Gnome sightings!!! Nintendo DS game Millionheir Case Files...after you've played a while, it is mentioned that he had help finding his wealth, and then, in just about every scene, there is a GNOME! In the last part of the game you even have to find some, using the XRay at times. [...]

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"I Learned of Your Website Through My XM Radio"

Dear Slice of SciFi, I learned of your website through my XM radio and listen every monday morning, even though the show is broadcast on a date delay. Thanks to you I have purchased and enjoyed several sci-fi shows such as Dead Like Me, etc... Thanks. I am a truck driver and get to watch [...]

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Star Trek Shields Update

Hi Sam, On 4/27/07 you posted a story about upcoming work on developing Star Trek type "shields" for spacecraft. See LINK. Their first experiment was surprisingly successful. "Quirks and Quarks" on the CBC recently interviewed one of the lead scientists on the project, and their story is available as an mp3 (22mb) (about 10 mins.) [...]

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Old Tim Renshaw Interviews With Trek Legends Remastered

Hi guys. I've been a long time listener of Slice and wanted to drop you all a note to thank you for the great podcast. A while back, I heard about "Star Trek: Continuing Mission" by an interview done on one of your shows, and I recently got in touch with the producers. It seems [...]

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Fan Pimps SoSF

OK, Fellow Geeks, I have a resolution for all of you old enough to have jobs and know what stuff costs. It's time to start the "Five Bucks a Month" campaign for our friends at Slice of SciFi (SoSF)! Our friends Mike, Summer, Sam and Brian work their butts off every week to bring us [...]

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Joss Whedon Says To Send Those Pencils

Hey Sam, I didn't see this posted yet so I thought I'd give you a heads up. As part of the ongoing WGA strike, a group of show-runners gathered and decided to give the fans a target for all there pent-up frustrations. According to a post by Joss Whedon over at Whedonesque.com, fans are being [...]

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Marvel Comics Offers Digital Archive Subscriptions

I saw no need to spruce this up as an article. The fanmail I received said it all: To: Sam - From MacWorld (http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/13/marvel/index.php?lsrc=mcrss) Marvel Comics offers digital archive subscriptions By Peter Cohen Marvel Comics on Tuesday announce the launch of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited(http://www.marvel.com/digitalcomics). The new service is Mac and PC compatible and is [...]

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X-Files Complete Collector's Edition

Hi Sam! I noticed your site has been on top of news surrounding the new X-Files movie and I was wondering if you knew about the X-Files Complete Collector’s Edition. Basically Fox is releasing the entire series -- all nine seasons -- plus the movie in one huge DVD box set, and we’d love to [...]

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I Want My Mmmmm, TV *Drool*

Written by: Macgyver (SoSF Fan Contributor) A history of fans getting their gorram show back, and the latest campaign that you can help out with -- The letter writing campaign It's 1968, your a geek, and you have one thing to obsess over. Gene Roddenberry's "wagon train to the stars" Star Trek. The opening titles [...]

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A Happy "Contest" Camper

Michael Tiernan was one of our lucky winners in the recent Naked Archaeologist Contest we ran. Here was his reaction to the prize arriving at his front door. Oh MY GOD!!!!!!!! I can't believe I won a backpack!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!! while [ grateful ] ; do echo "Thank you!!!!!" done --Michael C Tiernan

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A Fan Recommended Film

MY NAME IS BRUCE! I'd have called it in for the voicemail show, but my phone isn't working. Check out this plot description -- B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon. -Brian Webber [...]

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"Stardust" -- A Fan's Recommendation

Can I humbly suggest that you run, not walk, to go see "Stardust" this week? It's everything you loved about the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie plus a great Neil Gaiman twist on a fairy tale. It's been fairly well reviewed by the mainstream media, though they really don't get it. My non-geek husband [...]

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