Why Outer Space Not Interesting - Fan Email Comment
August 15, 2009 || Category: Fan Mailbag | 2 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“I Learned of Your Website Through My XM Radio”
October 15, 2008 || Category: Fan Mailbag | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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: [...]
Old Tim Renshaw Interviews With Trek Legends Remastered
February 1, 2008 || Category: Fan Mailbag | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Marvel Comics Offers Digital Archive Subscriptions
November 14, 2007 || Category: Fan Mailbag | Leave a Comment
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
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. [...]
Rowling Reads “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” LIVE
July 19, 2007 || Category: Book News, Fan Mailbag | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Season 3 of Doctor Who Starts This Week in Australia
June 27, 2007 || Category: Fan Mailbag | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Blockbuster Doing Better Than Was Thought in Brazil
June 22, 2007 || Category: Fan Mailbag | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Amazon Unbox Tivo Is Up and Running
March 8, 2007 || Category: Fan Mailbag, Technology News | Leave a Comment
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, [...]
Google to Replace Microsoft Exchange & Office at Pixar?
February 15, 2007 || Category: Fan Mailbag, Technology News | Leave a Comment
To: Sam
This Business Week article ‘Google Steps Into Microsoft’s Office’ is interesting because it is the first time I have seen a rather large corporate entity (Pixar/Disney) express an interest in moving to a non-Microsoft, Web-based platform like Google Apps for your Domain. The other interesting point to note is published user-base of Microsoft Office [...]
To Slice of Sci Fi:
I thought you guys might get a kick out of these photographs of an Acura NSX concept. In my opinion, the rear end of the car looks somewhat like Cylon raider.
Check out the full design of the 2008 Acura NSX HERE:
I’ve been listening to you for about one [...]
We received this from our Slice Fan Mailbag and, on a certain level, we agree with the writer.
The re-imagined “Battlestar Galactica” is not your 1970’s BSG and is not intended for all members of the family. It is darker, grittier, sexier and more realistic to the basic flaws of real human nature, where, like [...]
BBC Makes Bold Download Move
December 20, 2006 || Category: Fan Mailbag, Technology News | 1 Comment
One of our U.K. Slice of SciFi fans from Bristol by the name of Liam massaged our egos with an email lauding our work here and on the show, but above and beyond that he shared an article from the BBC that sounds very promising.
Here it is straight off of the BBC Newswire:
BBC moves to [...]
Marc Waldman wrote:
Mike,
Just wanted to let you know that I have been listening to your show for about 2 months now (Just recently got into listening to podcast) and thoroughly enjoy every episode.
Recently the Sci Fi channel has been promoting their new up and coming lineup (I specifically have eagerly been waiting [...]
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