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Science Fiction

  • Voice Choices

    May 16, 2012

    SCI-FI BLUES

    Author Brian Francis Slattery 
brings his banjo to WORD

  • Voice Choices

    May 2, 2012

    DRESS TO KILL

    Find sartorial inspiration at this festival

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2012

    New Yorkers Have to Wait to See Their New Spacecraft

    It looks like we're going to have to re-mark our calendars for the arrival of Enterprise in our own backyard. And not the one from Star Trek, the one from NASA.Due to an overcast prediction for Monday's weather, the space agency is holding back on its transfer ("until further notice") of t ... More >>

  • Theater

    February 22, 2012

    Shatner's World: We Just Live in It Boldly Goes to Broadway

    Willie Geist reviews the TV icon's one-man show

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Zoe Saldana, Eat A Sandwich!

    The kick-ass Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) was photographed above going for lunch with a friend, but did she really eat anything?

  • Voice Choices

    November 16, 2011

    TECH VS. HUMAN

    Kubrick knew the future is a scary place

  • Voice Choices

    November 16, 2011

    Jeff Mills

    Kubrick knew the future is a scary place

  • Voice Choices

    August 24, 2011

    The Red Desert

    Kubrick knew the future is a scary place

  • Theater

    April 27, 2011

    Picked Takes the Fun Out of Sci-Fi

    Christopher Shinn's new Hollywood drama is in need of a retake

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    George Takei Called Me!

    ​For our scheduled interview! He's doing public service announcements urging people to apply for social security benefits online--but before we went there, I had to tell him I loved his sardonic Spider-Man audition video that's making the rounds. "It's amazing how quickly things can go vira ... More >>

  • Film

    March 16, 2011

    Welcome to the Planet of the Aping in Paul

    ​For our scheduled interview! He's doing public service announcements urging people to apply for social security benefits online--but before we went there, I had to tell him I loved his sardonic Spider-Man audition video that's making the rounds. "It's amazing how quickly things can go vira ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2011

    HOT FOR WATSON?

    It’s only a matter of time . . .

  • News

    February 23, 2011

    A "Star Trek" Alien Lives in Flatbush

    Indie filmmakers Kasia Kowalczyk and Tal Harris make shit awesome

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Star Trek Writer/Producer Regrets That There Were No Gays

    ​Gays would have loved to say mildly suggestive things like, "Beam me up, Scotty"! But there weren't any in Star Trek. (I'm talking about the characters, not the actors, mind you.) And now, a writer/producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Brannon Braga, tel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    THX-1138: George Lucas Goes Feature-Length

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 8, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 14 White on White By William Paul The most successful science fiction films like "The Thing" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," have used their science fiction conceits as metaphors for an actual state o ... More >>

  • Theater

    October 20, 2010

    Plan Nine From Outer Space Lands at the Brick

    A late-night show for the Ed Wood-inclined

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Download: Elks, "Destined For the Sun"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Thaddeus Ruzicka​Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die lie Brooklyn chug-monsters Elks. Much like contemporaries High On Fire or Coliseum, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2010

    Interkosmos

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Thaddeus Ruzicka​Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die lie Brooklyn chug-monsters Elks. Much like contemporaries High On Fire or Coliseum, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2009

    The Intruder

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Thaddeus Ruzicka​Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die lie Brooklyn chug-monsters Elks. Much like contemporaries High On Fire or Coliseum, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2009

    Pamelia Kurstin

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Thaddeus Ruzicka​Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die lie Brooklyn chug-monsters Elks. Much like contemporaries High On Fire or Coliseum, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    SciFi Writer David Gerrold Reacts to Olson's "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script"

    ​Among the hundreds of comments we've received in reaction to Josh Olson's acerbic rant, "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script," was this gem by longtime science fiction writer David Gerrold. For those of you who don't obsess about Star Trek, it was Gerrold who penned the "Trouble with Tribbles ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    EARTHLINGS, BEWARE

    Women really are from Venus

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    Ethel & Gutbucket

    Women really are from Venus

  • Voice Choices

    May 13, 2009

    SPACE ODDITY

    Cynthia Hopkins wants to turn you inside out

  • Film

    May 6, 2009

    J.J. Abrams's Star Trek

    Proof that a franchise can live long and prosper

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2009

    CRIME SCENE

    Remembering a notorious East Village murder

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2009

    'Binibon'

    Remembering a notorious East Village murder

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Philip José Farmer: 1918-2009

    The wildly inventive and passionately polemical science-fiction writer Philip José Farmer quietly expired at home, Ash Wednesday morning, at the ripe age of 91. I and many others first became aware of Farmer's work in the 1970s, shortly after the first volume of his legendary Riverworld series, T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Stranger in a Strange Land, Day 2

    In my rant about raisin pie, I neglected to mention where I'd found it: rural Pennsylvania, a few miles east of Gettysburg and just north of the Maryland border. I'm at a writers' workshop, but here's the catch: I'm not here as a writer, but as a cook. The participants are science fiction writers ... More >>

  • Books

    February 4, 2009

    The Speculator: On Joanna Russ

    A new collection takes stock of the pioneering SF writer and feminist

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2008

    PLAY ON

    Emerging playwrights have their day in the sun

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Kanye West: Going Nuts?

    Emerging playwrights have their day in the sun

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2008

    GEEK ALERT

    A sci-fi fantasy play to make Lara Croft proud

  • Art

    December 18, 2007
  • Film

    July 10, 2007

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    Racing to reignite the sun—and our souls—in Danny Boyle's sci-fi collage

  • NYC Life

    June 26, 2007

    A Jones for Indiana

    It's the Littlest-Blockbuster-That-Could. The notorious fan-made remake of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' rides into Anthology Film Archives.

  • Art

    July 26, 2005

    Brave New Hamburger

    Researchers cook up far-out ways to grow meat

  • NYC Life

    April 19, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Researchers cook up far-out ways to grow meat

  • Music

    July 13, 2004

    Music

    Researchers cook up far-out ways to grow meat

  • Film

    November 4, 2003

    Holy Trinity

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Film

    August 12, 2003

    Mothership Masala: Close Encounters of the Bollywood Kind

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Film

    December 17, 2002

    Film

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Music

    August 6, 2002

    Let's Retroactive!

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Books

    July 16, 2002

    Spaceballs

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Music

    February 22, 2000

    Net-Surfing Cheetahs With Hearts Full of Outtakes

    Secret of the universe swallowed by infernal orange and blue orgone-light tentacle vortex

  • Film

    February 15, 2000
  • News

    December 28, 1999

    Future Shock

    Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

  • Music

    July 27, 1999

    Parent With Parrots

    Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

  • News

    June 22, 1999

    Star Struck

    Sci-Fi Conventions Give Actors Eternal Life

  • Screens

    November 17, 1998

    Six Ways to Sunday

    Seven Days Beats Its Pulp Into a Brain

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