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August 25, 2015

Is it too late to save humanity? http://buff.ly/1Fb2VIc #action #scifi #marvel #asmsg #iartg #bookplugs #itrtg

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Published on August 25, 2015 11:30

Our time is up. Who can save us? http://buff.ly/1LM4pN6 #marvel #aliens #demons #dccomics

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Published on August 25, 2015 11:15

Professor Pendleton is here. http://buff.ly/1LEVyxb #archaeology #aliens #action #doctorwho #whovian

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Published on August 25, 2015 11:00

August 24, 2015

Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎sciencefiction‬ ‪#‎doctorwho‬ ‪#‎startrek‬ ‪#‎starwars‬ ‪#‎scifichat‬

1904 – Rodd Redwing, actor (The Mole People, Creature from the Black Lagoon)


1914 – E.G. Marshall, actor, d @ 84 (The Tommyknockers, Superman II, The Phoenix)

1915 – Ronald Ibbs, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1915 – Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)


1920 – Helena Carter, actress (Invaders from Mars)


Helena Carter in Invaders from Mars

Helena Carter in Invaders from Mars


 


 


 


 


 


 


1924 – Jimmy Gardner, actor (Doctor Who)


Jimmy Gardner in Doctor Who

Jimmy Gardner in Doctor Who


 


 


 


 


 


 


1932 – William Morgan Sheppard, actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Voyager, Timecop, Transformers, Mysterious Island, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: TNG, Max Headroom, The Day of the Triffids)

1933 – Robert Ellis, actor (Space Master X-7 )

1934 – Kenny Baker, actor (Star Wars, U.F.O, Time Bandits, Flash Gordon)

1937 – Allyson Ames, actress (The Phantom Planet, The Outer Limits)


Allyson Ames in The Outer Limits: The Production and Decay of Strange Particles

Allyson Ames in The Outer Limits: The Production and Decay of Strange Particles


1945 – Castulo Guerra, actor (Invasion, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Lois & Clark, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starman)

1945 – Ronnie Blakley, actor (Beyond Westworld)


1949 – Charles Rocket, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Patrol, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, Max Headroom)


1951 – Orson Scott Card, sci-fi author (Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead)


1956 – Kevin Dunn, actor (Transformers, NYPD 2069, Godzilla 1998)

1957 – Stephen Fry, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time)


 


1958 – Steve Guttenberg, actor (Short Circuit, Cocoon 1 & 2, The Day After, The Boys from Brazil)


1961 – Mark Protosevich, writer (I Am Legend, The Cell)

1961 – Jared Harris b. 1961 (Fringe, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Lost in Space)


1966 – Eric Edwards, actor (Blade)


1973 – Billy Greene, actor, d @ 76 (The Cape Canaveral Monsters, My Favorite Martian, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1973 – Barret Oliver, actor (Cocoon, D.A.R.Y.L, The Twilight Zone)

1974 – Jennifer Lien, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1975 – Kwesi Ameyaw, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Riverworld, Fringe, Stargate, Kyle XY, Blade: Trinity, Jake 2.0, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Strange Frequency, The Lone Gunmen, The 6th Day)

1975 – James D’Arcy, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Them)

1976 – Alex O’Loughlin, actor (The Invisible, Man-Thing)


2001 – Ghosts of Mars released


2014 – Richard Attenborough, actor, d @ 90 (Jurassic Park)

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Published on August 24, 2015 12:00

End of the world. Who can save it? http://buff.ly/1LM4pN6 #marvel #aliens #demons #dccomics

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Published on August 24, 2015 11:15

August 23, 2015

Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎sciencefiction‬ ‪#‎doctorwho‬ ‪#‎startrek‬ ‪#‎starwars‬ ‪#‎scifichat‬

1915 – James Millhollin, actor (Lost in Space, It’s About Time, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)


James Millhollin as Willoughby the Llama in Lost in Space: The Great Vegetable Rebellion

James Millhollin as Willoughby the Llama in Lost in Space: The Great Vegetable Rebellion


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1929 – Vera Miles, actress (BrainWaves, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)


Vera Miles in The Outer Limits: The Form of Things Unknown

Vera Miles in The Outer Limits: The Form of Things Unknown


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1931 – Barbara Eden 1931 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Stepford Children)


Barbara Eden in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Barbara Eden in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea


1938 – Ronny Cox, actor (Robocop, The Twilight Zone)


1940 – Lee Majors, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman)

1943 – Bobby Diamond, actor (Twilight Zone)

1944 – Bob Peck, actor (Jurassic Park, Slipstream)

1949 – Shelley Long, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Lois & Clark)


1954 – Mark Vann, actor (Torchwood)

1954 – Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster released

1955 – Jennifer Holmes, actress (Misfits of Science, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)


1961 – Deron McBee, actor (The Invisible Man, Roswell, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Time Barbarians)

1963 – Ed Gale, actor (Weird Science, Lifepod, Phantasm II, Spaceballs, Howard the Duck)

1966 – Francis X. Bushman, actor, d @ 83 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Phantom Planet)


1970 – Jay Mohr, actor (S1mOne, From the Earth to the Moon)

1970 – River Phoenix, actor (Explorers)

Aaron Douglas b. 1971 (Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, I, Robot, The Strain, Falling Skies, Smallville, Bionic Woman)

1974 – Ray Park, actor (Star Wars: Episode 1)

1975 – Hank Patterson, actor, d @ 86 (Twilight Zone, Earth vs. the Spider, Tarantula, The Amazing Colossal Man, Beginning of the End)


1999 – James White, sci-fi author, d @ 71 (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)


2001 – Kathleen Freeman, actress, d @ 82 (Out of this World, The Munsters Today, ALF, The Fly)

2003 – Alana Mansour, actress (Terra Nova)

2005 – Brock Peters, actor, d @ 78 (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Alligator II: The Mutation, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

2007 – Robert Symonds, actor, d @ 80 (Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Ice Pirates , C.H.U.D. II, Quantum Leap, Mandroid, Star Trek: DS9)


2013 – Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer, d @ 99 (Flash Gordon, Star Wars)

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Published on August 23, 2015 12:00

August 22, 2015

Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎sciencefiction‬ ‪#‎doctorwho‬ ‪#‎startrek‬ ‪#‎starwars‬ ‪#‎scifichat‬

1893 – Cecil Kellaway, actor (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Destination Space, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)


1920 – Ray Bradbury, sci-fi author

1925 – Honor Blackman, actress (Cockneys vs Zombies, Doctor Who, H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man)


Honor Blackman in Doctor Who

Honor Blackman in Doctor Who


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1934 – Diana Sands, actress (The Outer Limits)


Diana Sands in The Outer Limits

Diana Sands in The Outer Limits


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1958 – Colm Feore, actor (Revolution, Battlestar Galactica, The Chronicles of Riddick, Creature, War of the Worlds)

1959 – Mark Williams, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein’s Wedding… Live in Leeds, Stardust, Red Dwarf)


Mark Williams in Doctor Who

Mark Williams in Doctor Who


1962 – Lara Harris, actress (Demolition Man)


1965 – Courtney Gains, actress (Mimesis, Alien Encounter, Superboy, Starman, Misfits of Science, Back to the Future, Children of the Corn)

1967 – Pamella D’Pella, actress (Alien Nation: Millennium, ALF)

1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, actor (The Thing, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1967 – Ty Burrell, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Evolution, Dawn of the Dead)

1971 – Richard Armitage, actor (Star Wars: Episode I)

1973 – Kristen Wiig, actress (Paul)

1973 – Heidi Lenhart, actress (Crocodile 2: Death Swamp)

1977 – Sebastian Cabot, actor, d @ 59 (The Time Machine, The Twilight Zone)

1978 – James Corden, actor (Doctor Who)


James Corden in Doctor Who

James Corden in Doctor Who


1979 – Brandon Quintin Adams, actor (Ghost in the Machine, Quantum Leap)

1980 – George R. Stewart, sci-fi author, d @ 85 (Earth Abides)

1982 – 1990: The Bronx Warriors released

1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, actress, d @ 67 (The Twilight Zone)

1997 – Event Horizon released in UK

1999 – Dakota Goyo, actress (Dark Skies, Real Steel, Ultra)

2000 – Toru Tanaka, actor, d @ 70 (Last Action Hero, Alligator II: The Mutation, Darkman, The Running Man)

2004 – Daniel Petrie, director, d @ 83 (Cocoon: The Return, The Neptune Factor)

2005 – Serenity released

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Published on August 22, 2015 12:01

August 21, 2015

Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎sciencefiction‬ ‪#‎doctorwho‬ ‪#‎startrek‬ ‪#‎starwars‬ ‪#‎scifichat‬

1895 – Blossom Rock, actress (She Devil)


1908 – Kurt Neumann, director (The Fly, Rocketship X-M)


1911 – Anthony Boucher, editor (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

1919 – Bill Idelson, writer / actor (The Crawling Hand, Twilight Zone / My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)


1924 – Jack Weston, American actor (Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, The Twilight Zone)


Jack Weston (second from left) in Rod Brown and the Rocket Rangers

Jack Weston (second from left) in Rod Brown and the Rocket Rangers


1927 – Tony Steedman, actor (Babylon 5)

1927 – Barry Foster, actor (Doomwatch)


1939 – Clarence Williams III, actor (Star Trek: DS9)


1943 – A[braham P] Merritt, sci-fi author, d @ 58 (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)

1945 – Basil Poledouris b. d @ 61 8 November 2006 ,Composer (RoboCop 3, Starship Troopers, The Twilight Zone)

1946 – Walter Williamson, actor (The Omega Code, Babylon 5)

1947 – Lucius Shepard, sci-fi author (Barnacle Bill The Spacer)


 


1956 – Kim Catrall (Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country, The Incredible Hulk, Logan’s Run)


Kim Catrall in Star Trek VI

Kim Catrall in Star Trek VI


1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Red Planet)

1969 – Nathan Jones, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Doom Runners)


1981 – Eddie Byrne, actor, d @ 70 (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Journey to the Unknown)


 


 


 


 


 


 


1985 – Laura Haddock, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)


Laura Haddock in Guardians of the Galaxy

Laura Haddock in Guardians of the Galaxy


1989 – Hayden Panettiere, actor (Heroes)


1999 – Maxim Knight, actor (Falling Skies)


2005 – Michael Sheard, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who, Space, The Invisible Man, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Space: 1999)

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Published on August 21, 2015 11:55

August 20, 2015

Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present/future. ‪#‎scifi‬ ‪#‎sciencefiction‬ ‪#‎doctorwho‬ ‪#‎startrek‬ ‪#‎starwars‬ ‪#‎scifichat‬

1909 – Andre Morell, actor (Doctor Who, Quatermass and the Pit, The Giant Behemoth, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)


Andre Morell in Quatermass and the Pit

Andre Morell in Quatermass and the Pit


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


1916 – Bernard Archard, actor (Krull, Doctor Who, The Horror of Frankenstein)


Bernard Archard in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

Bernard Archard in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars


 


 


 


 


 


 


1932 – Anthony Ainley, actor (Doctor Who, The Land Time Forgot)


1943 – Sylvester McCoy, actor (Doctor Who, Starstrider, Roberts Robots)


Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy


1947 – Ray Wise, actor (Big Ass Spider!, Nuclear Family, Dollhouse, Pandemic, Cyxork 7, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, RoboCop, Swamp Thing)


1948 – John Noble, actor (Fringe, Stargate SG-1, The Lost World, Time Trax)


1949 – Patrick Kilpatrick, actor (The Zombinator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Minority Report, Roswell, The X Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Timecop (TV), Babylon 5, The Stand, Lois & Clark, Time Trax, Class of 1999, The Toxic Avenger)


1951 – Greg[ory Dale] Bear, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)


1953 – Peter Horton, actor (Thoughtcrimes, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous)

1955 – Jay Acavone, actor (InAlienable, Stargate SG-1, Terminated 3, The X Files, The Invisible Man, Sliders, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Dark Skies, Independence Day)

1956 – Joan Allen, actress (The Twilight Zone)


1962 – James Marsters, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Warehouse 13, Smallville, Caprica, Moonshot, Torchwood, Strange Frequency)

1962 – Sophie Aldred, actress (Doctor Who)

1962 – Geoffrey Blake, actor (The Event, Contact, Star Trek: DS9, Critters 3, Alien Nation (TV), ALF, The Last Starfighter)


1966 – Colin Cunningham, actor (Centigrade, Falling Skies, Stargate, The 4400, Elektra, Andromeda, Smallville, Strange Frequency, The 6th Day, The X-Files)

1968 – George Gamow, sci-fi author, d @ 64 (Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, One, Two, Three… Infinity)


1971 – Jonathan Ke Quan, actor (Encino Man)

`971 – David Walliams, actor (Doctor Who, Stardust)

1974 – Amy Adams, actress (Man of Steel, Smallville)

1975 – Moon Bloodgood, actress (Terminator Salvation)


1981 – Ben Barnes, actor (Stardust)

1981 – Ali Liebert, actress (Fringe, Kyle XY, The 4400)

1983 – Andrew Garfield, actor (Doctor Who)


2001 – Sir Fred Hoyle, scientist/author, d @ 86 (A for Andromeda, The Molecule Men)

2001 – Walter Reedm actor, d @ 85 (The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, World of Giants, How to Make a Monster, Adventures of Superman, Flying Disc Man from Mars)


2013 – Ted Post, director, d @ 95 (Ark II, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

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Published on August 20, 2015 12:00

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