Ryan Lambie Jun 1, 2019
Commercials and TV form an integral part in Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi films, RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
"I looked at American society in a kind of dazed way when I was doing RoboCop," director Paul Verhoeven told Den of Geek UK a few years ago. Back in the mid-80s, when he was better known for his Dutch films like Soldier Of Orange and The Fourth Man, Verhoeven was still getting used to the pace and tone of American culture - and his outsider status arguably fed into the wry, spikily satirical edge in all three sci-fi films he made while in Hollywood.
"It was all so different from living in Holland," Verhoeven recalled. "A lot of my, let's say, amazement, at American society is in RoboCop; in the commercials, in the news reels and so forth,...
Commercials and TV form an integral part in Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi films, RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
"I looked at American society in a kind of dazed way when I was doing RoboCop," director Paul Verhoeven told Den of Geek UK a few years ago. Back in the mid-80s, when he was better known for his Dutch films like Soldier Of Orange and The Fourth Man, Verhoeven was still getting used to the pace and tone of American culture - and his outsider status arguably fed into the wry, spikily satirical edge in all three sci-fi films he made while in Hollywood.
"It was all so different from living in Holland," Verhoeven recalled. "A lot of my, let's say, amazement, at American society is in RoboCop; in the commercials, in the news reels and so forth,...
- 4/6/2017
- Den of Geek
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Treat yourself to some science fiction reading, with a bunch of recommend reads from the 1970s...
So many types of science fiction exist, and British Sf writing in the 1970s was often in the business of inventing new types or manipulating the old ones into interesting directions. Astonishing visions were created that reflected back on a changing world where the growth of superpowers jostled with the economic hardships at home. Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?
Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. From the foreseeable future to the end of the universe, here’s a look at eleven incredible British science fiction novels of the 1970s:
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Treat yourself to some science fiction reading, with a bunch of recommend reads from the 1970s...
So many types of science fiction exist, and British Sf writing in the 1970s was often in the business of inventing new types or manipulating the old ones into interesting directions. Astonishing visions were created that reflected back on a changing world where the growth of superpowers jostled with the economic hardships at home. Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?
Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. From the foreseeable future to the end of the universe, here’s a look at eleven incredible British science fiction novels of the 1970s:
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- 6/23/2016
- Den of Geek
Lists of the top ten worst moments in films involving technology are easy - but which ones would you vote the best?
The ten worst tech film moments are back - though we've been here before, haven't we? Back in September 2007, when we asked which the worst technology fu... goof was in a film.
And you can relive them with the Apc mag's top ten, which interestingly lists quite a few of the films that we did for the worst tech (The Net, Swordfish, Independence Day).
But here's a trickier question: what are your top ten films where technology is crucial, but it's done just right? Not overdone, but pitched just right given the time when it's set. (Obviously, this needs to be time close to ours. It's no use saying "Star Trek is exactly right because it's hard to know what the 24th century is like, or if there...
The ten worst tech film moments are back - though we've been here before, haven't we? Back in September 2007, when we asked which the worst technology fu... goof was in a film.
And you can relive them with the Apc mag's top ten, which interestingly lists quite a few of the films that we did for the worst tech (The Net, Swordfish, Independence Day).
But here's a trickier question: what are your top ten films where technology is crucial, but it's done just right? Not overdone, but pitched just right given the time when it's set. (Obviously, this needs to be time close to ours. It's no use saying "Star Trek is exactly right because it's hard to know what the 24th century is like, or if there...
- 4/19/2010
- by Charles Arthur
- The Guardian - Film News
Yellow Blue Tibia joins a distinguished shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel award
Tipped as the science fiction novel that would finally win a Booker prize for the genre, Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia failed to even make the longlist for the UK's most prestigious literary award last year, but has just been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel prize alongside some of the biggest names in the genre.
Set in Russia in 1946, Roberts's novel sees a group of Soviet Sf authors concocting a story about aliens poised to invade the earth which, post-Chernobyl, starts to come true. Last summer, acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson said it ought to have won the Booker. A professor of 19th-century literature at the Royal Holloway as well as an author, Roberts is shortlisted alongside Ursula K LeGuin for her historical fantasy Lavinia, China Miéville's surreal venture into crime fiction,...
Tipped as the science fiction novel that would finally win a Booker prize for the genre, Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia failed to even make the longlist for the UK's most prestigious literary award last year, but has just been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel prize alongside some of the biggest names in the genre.
Set in Russia in 1946, Roberts's novel sees a group of Soviet Sf authors concocting a story about aliens poised to invade the earth which, post-Chernobyl, starts to come true. Last summer, acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson said it ought to have won the Booker. A professor of 19th-century literature at the Royal Holloway as well as an author, Roberts is shortlisted alongside Ursula K LeGuin for her historical fantasy Lavinia, China Miéville's surreal venture into crime fiction,...
- 1/26/2010
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
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