Hello there, and welcome to Today’s Short, where we go over short films in the genres of both science fiction and fantasy. Today’s short film, or films in this case, are those of the Lost Memories series on Vimeo. Let’s take a look! I find myself in an interesting position, in that I watched the sequel, Lost Memories 2.0, before…
For the record, I think Robert Downey Jr can be a fantastic actor. I really enjoyed his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and if you’ve ever seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, you know he has a talent for comedic timing. Yet every time I have a conversation with my girlfriend about Iron Man, she snorts and tells…
I think there might be something wrong with science fiction writers. Which is quite the statement, because I am a science fiction writer. Why do we like to end the world so much? What is so inherently appealing about destroying it? Is it because we have a grudge against society, and this is our way…
When the opportunity to read a novel about a rogue, self-aware robot engineered specifically to fulfill human sexual desires crosses your path, you don’t hesitate. You pounce. The novel Sexbot by Patrick Quinlan tells the story of Susan Jones, a scientist who downloads her consciousness into a ninth generation Sexbot, the highest quality artificial intelligence…
(WARNING: In case the title wasn’t clear enough, mild sexual content lies ahead.) In the realm of science fiction, particularly under the headings of both film and television, it is a widely known fact that when two attractive people/creatures of opposite (or perhaps not-so-opposite) sexes encounter one another, they are likely going to, in many cases, end…
