Effective November 3, 2008 Sam Sloan, FarPoint Media’s executive news director and Slice of SciFi content producer will be going into retirement. This was not an easy decision but one brought about as a result of recent medical problems. Sam will be undergoing a series of tests over the next few months that […]

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.
Also, just […]

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 […]

Tom Smith is in the hospital. Why? Click here for details.
What does this mean? It means Tom will be unable to perform at any conventions this summer, and will be racking up months of medical bills in the meantime.
What can you do? Donate! Not only will you get a warm fuzzy feeling, you’ll […]

Let a child read and learn. Help an adult earn a living.
Now that spring cleaning season is here, have you decided what to do with the old prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses that you have stashed in your drawer? If you’re not going to wear them, you could give the glasses to the “Blood […]

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.) at: […]

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. […]

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 news, […]

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 […]

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 priced starting at $4.99 […]

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 get […]

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 promise you a […]

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

A word from Samuel K. Sloan — Farpoint Media Executive News Director
We would like to welcome and introduce the newest partner to Slice of SciFi and the Farpoint Media family of podcasts — TVGuide.com.
The TV Guide has been around almost from the inception of television (national debut was in 1953) offering the best in news, […]

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
Thanks for the tip […]

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. […]

Submitted by: Kurt (SoSF Fan)
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that now everyone will be able to hear J K Rowling read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a live webstream from the Natural History Museum in London at the precise moment it is published - 12.01am bst on Saturday 21st July 2007
Ten […]

Hello my name is [name withheld]; I am currently from [location withheld] which is currently deployed to Iraq. Our unit is conducting numerous missions over here and we are currently doing a 15 month deployment over in Iraq. I am the Medical Platoon Sergeant and have 14 medics under me and some of […]

What’s up? I think you all are up to speed on the films I’ve been making, so there’s something else I’ve been doing I want to tell you about.
I am a die-hard supporter of Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA), which is a small organization that packs a huge wallop. ANSA […]

Hey Slicers,
I’m a new listener to your Farpoint podcasts, and have to say I am very impressed. I am forty nine and have just recently been given a iPod for my birthday from my twelve year old daughter. (I bought it myself, after her telling me. “Dude, you SOOOOO need this”) yes, I reached that […]

I’m writing this since I couldn’t get through on the voice mail line. You guys have had a couple errors in your reporting on Transformers the Movie and Transformers: Heroes. First off, Peter Cullen and Frank Welker only did the voices for Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively in the Original 1984 cartoon. The new movie […]

Trek to the Troops is expanding it’s mission and direction. The popular site and ever-growing organization will no longer limit itself to just highlighting Star Trek and franchise related materials for the troops, however, Trek will still be its heart and soul.
Trek to the Troops (TTTT) will remain dedicated to the overall Trek […]

Hello Mike and Slicers,
Like me you all like “Torchwood” — of course we know it aired late last year (around December in the U.K.) and I remember this quote from your December show:
” Eric in Sydney highly recommends “Torchwood”… too bad it’ll never air on US television”
Well I just found out that BBC America is […]

Sam,
Could you please advise your multitude of Aussie readers that Season 3 of Doctor Who starts this week in Australia.
The Doctor Who Christmas 2006 episode ‘The Runaway Bride’ is on at 8:30pm tomorrow (Thursday) and the first episode of Season 3 is on at 7:30pm this Saturday, coincidentally the day the final episode shows in […]

Hey Gang,
Just wanted to say thanks for the interview with Tanya Huff and the information on Blood Ties.
I must admit that when I first heard about this series I, incorrectly, assumed since it was on Lifetime that it was some romance style show with a vampire or two thrown in as a plot […]

Hi Mike,
In a recent Voicemail show a listener sent a comment about how Blockbuster had supposedly gone bankrupt in Brazil due to competition from pirate DVDs. I don’t know where he heard that, but it’s not true, the chain is actually growing. My sister is a regular customer, and you can find the […]

Submitted by: Sharon Snyder (SoSF Fan Contributor)
James Marsters (”Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel”) will be playing a one-off concert in Cardiff on Saturday, July 21. He will be appearing at The Point in Mount Stuart Square in Cardiff. Tickets cost £20 (subject to booking fee) and are now on sale from The Point. […]

Dear Mike, Summer, and Sam,
My kids have started to make me wait to listen to your podcast when they are in the van and wanted me to send you the pix I took of them with R2D2.
Sam if you happen to get to Omaha some time it is at the corner of dodge and 50th […]

Our good friend Lora Friedenthal sent us a piece of neat info about some other downloading options for your TiVo. Here is what she had to say, followed by the link that will tell you a lot more about it.
You can now sign up to have videos from Unbox download to your tivo. However, […]

Written by: Christopher Mulrooney (Founder — Trek To The Troops)
After our first run of Trek Care Packages we are being asked to send more items. We are supporting MWRs Centers in Afganistan and in Iraq with items to keep the troops stationed there entertained. We have given out over 200 Star Trek paperback novels […]

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