Austin Film Festival: Science Fiction vs. Science Fact

The facts of the matter must serve the characters and story

"...While science fiction has become one of the major tentpoles holding..."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Worldbuilding With Science-Fiction Author Charlie Jane Anders

Signing for The City in the Middle of the Night at BookPeople

"...hopeful Kamala Harris stated that climate change called for “science fact, not science fiction,” she probably expected some resistance..."

Feb. 19, 2019 Arts Post by M. Brianna Stallings

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...a fannish good time, but somewhere aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror could meet and polish their..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Science Fiction Gets the Vapors

On steampunk

"..."We're living in science fiction," people like to say...."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Science-Fiction Cinema

Other Worlds Austin film festival debuts; interviews with the directors of Apt 3D and The Well featured

"...film festival, which is dedicated to the presentation of science-fiction filmmaking, takes place Thursday, Dec. 4, through Saturday, Dec...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Science-Fiction Cinema

Water wars

"...eco-drama The Well screens at the Other Worlds Austin science-fiction film festival, it will be a homecoming of sorts...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Science-Fiction Wine?

Bonny Doon's Randall Grahm keeps winemaking weird

"...My assignment was to find a science-fiction wine. Wow! This was going to be tough. So..."

July 25, 2008 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Five Science-Fiction Authors to Scan Darkly

ST 37 captain Scott Telles pulls five notables off the SF bookshelf.

"...This grand old man of British science fiction and part-time Bastrop resident was the editor of..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by S.L. Telles

Five Ways to Celebrate Science Fiction's Biggest Holiday

Different ways of looking at the cosmos for May the Fourth

"...7:30pm202 S. Lamar512/476-0541$25 and upzachtheatre.org New Horizons: Stuffed Animal Science Fair..."

April 29, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Science-Fiction Cinema

Break down the walls

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Citizen Science

The enlightenment of Jeanne Liotta

"...soared. ... It's like this virtual dreamspace: a little science fiction, a little bit sexy just because it feels..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Sarah Smith

Nisi Shawl Is Crossing the Streams of Fantastical Fiction

The Tiptree-winning author brings her new alt-history to the ATX

"...presenting as part of the latest iteration of Fantastical Fictions...."

Sept. 7, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Pet Cats in Modern Fiction

And you won’t believe what happens to the third one

"...Father of Modern Psychological Warfare – aka the under-celebrated science-fiction genius Cordwainer Smith. Never mind the girlygirl C’Mell –..."

Feb. 15, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Fiction Science

The State Board of Education does its part to fantasize biology

"...There's nothing the evil overlords of the fictional future like more than a nice, healthy round of..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Andrea Grimes

Poor Grasp of Science Undermines Credibility

"...had more issues when he started to explain the science. The article did try to explain that power is..."

July 30, 2008 Postmarks

The Science Delusion

White takes aim at the bold targets of Richard Dawkins and Jonah Lehrer and their ilk

"...The Science Delusionby Curtis White Melville House, 224 pp., $23.95 (May..."

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Things That Came: It Might Be Science, But It Sure Ain't Fiction

'Videodrome' and 'They Live,' then and now

"...the cinema of sci-fi. What we used to call science fiction, way back in the good old days of..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Fiction Writer as Futurecaster

Charles Yu is keeping his eye on the robots

"...debut meta novel, How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, imagines a world in which we are..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Texas Book Festival: Nicky Drayden and Chris Brown

The Austin authors explore new frontiers in science fiction

"...All science fiction is really about the present. Austin-based science fiction..."

Oct. 22, 2019 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

Robot Stories

A short film collection billed as "science fiction from the heart," with an emphasis on the heart part.

"...Pak. Although Greg Pak’s self-distributed film is billed as "science fiction from the heart," the emphasis should be the..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Déjà Vu

If the science fiction in Déjà Vu has more to do with fiction than science, it’s not as though this Denzel Washington picture ever pauses long enough for that realization to fully take hold.

"...a movie that gives the illusion of being an action/science-fiction movie for the thinking person. It’s a story that..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Wonder Stories

The unbound adventures and outrageous duets of a life spent with science fiction

"...Close childhood friends of mine started reading science fiction shortly after we learned how to read (though..."

July 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black

High Life

The tedium of space is nothing compared to the tedium of an unfulfilling story

"...who has distanced herself from the notion that her science-fiction film High Life is a science-fiction film. It undoubtedly..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hugo Rising

The nominees for science fiction's best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old

"...the city is playing host to the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, an international massing of authors, editors, and..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

ArmadilloCon 42 Blasts Off Into Cyberspace

Even on Planet COVID, the long-running Texas fan convention keeps celebrating science fiction and fantasy

"...computer. Yes, thanks to the coronavirus, even the second-longest-running science fiction convention in Texas has been forced into cyberspace...."

Aug. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Otto Binder Had a Vision

The great science-fiction and comic book writer already had a name for Trump back in the 1950s – Bizarro

"...early teenage years in New Jersey, where I befriended science-fiction writer and comic book writer Otto Binder. Always a..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Prospect

Lo-fi sci-fi drama is driven by performances and ingenuity

"...it shouldn’t come as a surprise that plenty of science-fiction films borrow heavily from the American Western. Few do..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Planet 51

In a switcheroo, animated aliens fear the human in their midst.

"...really cool bits of all the classic Cold War science-fiction films of the Fifties, possibly at the behest of..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solaris

"...the ill-fated space station Prometheus in Steven Soderbergh's new science fiction love story Solaris. That advice, along with the..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stargate

"...Jaye Davidson. When genres collide. Ridley Scott fused the science fiction movie with film noir in Blade Runner. James..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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