1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (250+ words) Dragon nerds the world over are likely deeply familiar with "Dragonriders of Pern." The long-running sci-fi fantasy novel series was created by Anne McCaffrey in the late 1960s, and its entries are often ranked among the best fantasy books of all…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (583+ words) SlashFilm NYPD Blue Got A Bizarre Sitcom Spin-Off That Was Canceled After One Episode TV history is littered with shows that were canceled after just one season. These range from cult hits such as "Firefly" and "Freaks and Geeks" to…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (602+ words) SlashFilm The Original Star Wars Is Heading To IMAX To Celebrate The Saga's Biggest Milestone Yet George Lucas' "Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope" was released on May 25, 1977, and it changed the face of cinema. The film was so…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago   (246+ words) "Fallout," of course, has been followed by a massive video game franchise that includes four games (and an upcoming fifth) in the "main" series, and seven spinoff games. One might also be familiar with the acclaimed "Fallout" TV series, currently…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (558+ words) SlashFilm A Sci-Fi Legend Directed More Gilligan's Island Episodes Than Anyone Else During the first season of "Gilligan's Island," the show welcomed several directors who would go on to become major filmmakers. Richard Donner, for example, directed three episodes of…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (516+ words) This article contains spoilers for "Batman: Knightfall – Part 1." Bane is such a fixture of "Batman" media that most people forget he only debuted in the 1990s. In Bane's debut arc, "Knightfall," he discovered Batman's secret identity, wore Batman down by staging…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (903+ words) SlashFilm 5 Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes With Great Space Battles To put it on the record right away: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" isn't really a "space battle" kind of show. Creator Gene Roddenberry launched "Next Generation" in 1987 with…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (379+ words) Here are the 10 best low-budget sci-fi movies, ranked. The laughs in "Dark Star" are fairly mild, and the plot is shambling and aimless, but it's only 80 minutes and has some cool low-fi space visual effects. Not to mention, it began…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (811+ words) SlashFilm 5 Classic Sci-Fi Books That Somehow Haven't Gotten A Movie Adaptation It's possible that no literary genre contains more unfilmable books than science fiction. Even those with relatively straightforward narratives like, say, Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" or Orson Scott Card's…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (646+ words) SlashFilm Before The Great, Nicholas Hoult And Elle Fanning Made A Critically Maligned Sci-Fi Western In the mid to late 20th Century, sci-fi superseded the Western as the most reliably popular movie genre. But that didn't mean these two styles were…...