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BBC News - 24th January 2016 It was announced last night that, after five series at the helm, Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat's next series will be his last as lead writer and executive producer. He has confirmed that his successor will be his close friend Toby Whithouse, creator of the BBC...

A preprint paper indicates that a fairly simple to make room-temperature pressure-ambient superconductor has been discovered: The paper describes a material that needs materials & ceramic kiln which would be available to Thomas Edison, as well as a vacuum pressure that was first achieved by...

Fuchsia is a world set on a tidally locked planet where humans have built-in genetic engineering capabilities and use it to develop organic technologies. It's an open collaborative project, so anyone can come to suggest and discuss ideas, and contribute content from text to graphics. Just...

Hi all, I've just released SWEET OBLIVION: A WAR OF THE WORLDS STORY, which is now available on Amazon (links below), and thought/hoped y'all would be interested. I've been working on it since September 2021 - essentially it's a re-telling of the original story but with the action shifted from...

Authors, directors and artists in general have the habit of dying too early, sometimes even before being acknowledged as talented people. Which great authors could have lived longer and how would their careers evolve as the world changes around them

Hello there, I’m Captain Robert Anderson of the International Agency for Multiverse Studies. You probably already know what we do. Travel to new universes, make contact with the locals, assess their culture, technology, environment, yadda, yadda. I’m making it sound more boring then it is, but...

I have been searching for any fan continuation of the song hinted at in the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. The only canon lyrics are When the fleetlord say, "We'll rule this world from space," We - hiss! hiss! - right in the fleetlord's face. The fleetlord thinks the Earth is for the...

Most everyone will agree that "Return of the Jedi," while an entertaining and satisfying movie, is by far the weakest entry in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to propose how the filmmakers could have turned "Return of the Jedi" into an overall...

In the original scripts for "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back," Vader wasn't Luke Skywalker's father. Instead he was a mere servant of the Emperor who hunted down and killed the Jedi, including Anakin Skywalker. In fact if you watch the original 1977 film it's clear that this was Lucas'...

Not sure where this belongs but I saw "Graphics", so here goes. A lot of the stuff I intend to post in here are snippets from a Space Opera/AH timeline I'm working on but there will be all sorts of random stuff. To start off with, one of my favourites. (Corner Infobox Text) Pictured below...

If you've ever heard of Orion's Arm, then you're also likely aware of the very mixed reviews that it gets. It draws praise for its creativity and extensive world-building on pretty much every aspect of galactic life, from new sciences like Hencity, to the anarcho-capitalistic NoCoZo, to the...