A new Australian free Star Trek Fanzine called The Lief Erikson is now available for download. Created by a lover of Star Trek who goes by the handle Kirok of L'Stok, this online zine's first edition from January 2006 is chock full of information ranging from fan film campaigns and groups to Star Trek audio [...]
Firefly/Serenity Barbies
January 31, 2006 By 2 Comments
If you are a collector or just have a fetish for Mal, Barbie and action figures from the verse, Scott Frey clued us into this little nugget that Firefly/Serenity lovers and Browncoats might find interesting. It's called Serentity Stuff.com and boasts of merchandise inspired from all over the verse. Let's face it, you gotta love [...]
Dr Who Fans Go Crazy For The "Ultimate" Toy
January 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Submitted by: Nina A ?2,000 full-size Dalek? Sci-fi fans are dribbling at the prospect of owning the definitive Dr. Who toy ? a brand new ?2,000 full-size Dalek replica. The 5?5?? models will not be ready until April ? but the toy-makers have already seen a huge demand for the replicas and have been flooded [...]
Shatner Kidney Stone Goes For $25,000
January 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Source: CNN News GoldenPalace.com is buyer; money to charity Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday. Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to Golden Palace. "This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. [...]
STAR TREK Fans: Get Personal With Bill Shatner & Patrick Stewart
January 8, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A Message From Our Good Friends At Creation Entertainment Over the 35 years we have been presenting our sci-fi media conventions the absolute number one inquiry has been, "Will the stars be personalizing when autographing?" Because of the crowds at conventions and the time constraints this has always been a virtual impossibility. Now, for the [...]
Fireballs Over Germany Fuel UFO Speculation
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: CNN World BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Numerous sightings of massive fireballs in the skies over Germany this week have led to an upsurge in reports of UFOs, but scientists believe the cause could be a bizarre annual meteor blitz.
Seeing With Sci-Fi Eyes
October 31, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: South Bend Tribune Written By: Evan Gillespie (Tribune Correspondent) Submitted by: Lesmond 'Beyond Tomorrow!' exhibit imagines humanity's future SOUTH BEND -- It's comforting to know that some things never change. Ask artists to present their visions of the future, and it seems that many of them focus on the same anxieties and fascinations that [...]
More stuff on the web
August 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Now this is funny. Dedicated, silly fun: Roll Call!: The (In)Complete Guide to every Science-Fiction Character who was ever killed It is incomplete, but the snark permeates every page. Gotta love it.
The Things You Find on the Web
August 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
So, I'm searching the web for a good Kosh picture, and I come across a website for a company in Brazil that has Babylon 5 toys that I've never seen before. Now, if I'd seen these in stores in the US, I'dve been seriously pressed not to buy them... I think these are cuter than [...]
Review of Geek Chic's "CHILL PAK"
July 30, 2005 By 5 Comments
Written by: S.K. Sloan Well, I did it my band of sci-fi aficionados. I coughed up $40.00 some-odd bucks and ordered two of Dean Haglund's "Chill Paks" that he spoke about on our Slice of SciFi Podcast on June 30th. Apart from this really scary and creepy picture of Dean on the box, I gotta [...]
The Coolest Things in Unexpected Places
July 14, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I hear a very familiar instrumental tune being played, and I stop in wondrous amazement, and just listen to the music and watch the jets of water dance with the crescendos and decrescendos of the symphonic piece, and the lights turned the water into streams of green, red, yellow and blue.
Sci-fi fan gets Spock ears
June 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: Money Plans Submitted by: Lesmond A sci-fi fan in China has had plastic surgery to give himself ears like Star Trek's Mr Spock. The young man astonished surgeons in Nanjing by telling them he wanted alien-like pointy ears. He told them he was bored with the shape of his ears and wanted to make [...]
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