| And small wonder it fired the imagination of the sci-fi immigrants, who imagined a new frontier in outer space. |
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| They were a success since science fiction fans could easily take part in a distinct sci-fi community and culture. |
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| The first one was a sci-fi crossed with an action thriller, and we both agreed that it sucked. |
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| If you're really itching for a good sci-fi game with a good sense of humor, then look no further. |
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| This is not a sci-fi matter, but a scientific one connected with real physical phenomena. |
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| It's a pleasant change to have a sci-fi movie directed by a woman, with a woman's touch. |
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| From sci-fi stuff to lots of laughs to reality shows with a twist, it's couch potato heaven. |
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| While it sounded like something out of a cheesy sci-fi movie, it was a danger Edward had to avoid. |
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| My first explanation is my theory for the sci-fi physics of the electromagnetic storm. |
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| Yes, my friend and I came up with that when we were having a sci-fi movie marathon. |
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| When I read the script, I didn't see it as a sci-fi movie, because it was so human. |
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| All of the sudden, this alien bothered me much more than any creepy creature from a sci-fi movie. |
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| Due to the sci-fi nature of the game, most of the secondary fire functions have some pretty radical side effects. |
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| It's just a very grim and gritty setting for a sci-fi vision of the near future. |
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| This is just one of the reasons why this sly, sci-fi spoof of a short film is such a welcome surprise. |
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| What's onscreen is a watered-down version of Solaris's deliciously smart sci-fi. |
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| If all the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter hype has you jonesing for some sci-fi or fantasy with a gay flavor, the Web can help you find it. |
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| Bill becomes Shirleen, complete with a shocking blond wig, and Jack turns into a scary sci-fi cowboy waving a plastic ray gun. |
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| Not just because I'm a staunch hard sci-fi kind of guy, but most fantasy, to me, consists of poorly written Tolkein knock-offs. |
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| Generally I think that people who are into sci-fi are interesting and worth listening to. |
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| Still, sci-fi and fantasy that is actually motivated by the issues surrounding women is a rarity. |
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| James Gunn, the director Marvel handpicked to helm the sci-fi opera Guardians of the Galaxy, was facing a similar quandary. |
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| The couple, who were briefly engaged for two years, first met in 2007 while filming the sci-fi film Jumper. |
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| And I think he wanted to do it because he had spent a lot of time in period costume and relished the idea of a sci-fi movie. |
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| Kids were getting their brains rewired by the epic Akira, still the pinnacle of sci-fi anime. |
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| Replacing her glasses and babbling apologies, Aimee scooped up her three sci-fi books and bumped into the girl again. |
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| Maybe it's too much a low-budget, sci-fi, techno-thriller mind bend, but that was what it started as. |
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| Are there any more sexy, campy, sci-fi fantasy movies like this out there? |
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| In fact, that it isn't, really, a sci-fi film makes it so successful. |
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| It appears as an overly elaborate annex or perhaps a sci-fi installation. |
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| The entire city looked like something from a sci-fi book cover. |
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| A platoon of sci-fi marines are dropped into hostile territory, seething with aliens, and they go ballistic. |
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| This is an informative lesson in how mechanically complex it once was to make believable sci-fi classics. |
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| There's a melancholy tone to the proceedings, a funeral solemnity, in what is supposed to be a summer sci-fi action blockbuster. |
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| Howard Shore creates a score that's wonderfully evocative of the 1950s, part sci-fi drive-in, part tiki lounge. |
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| All sci-fi should be this intelligently written, effectively shot, and sensitively acted. |
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| Broadcast offers titles ranging from classic Westerns to 50s b-movie sci-fi. |
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| For those of you not in the know, Steampunk is this teeny micro sci-fi genre. |
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| The technology, usually the cornerstone of sci-fi, is biomechanical rather than metallic. |
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| Connor goes into battle armed with some cool weaponry, which is pretty typical sci-fi fare. |
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| In the 1930s, when the very best American movie serials were made, the sci-fi ones were the ultimate examples of the cliffhanger. |
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| The other stories in the collection are jointly authored with other famous sci-fi names and are quite different from the others. |
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| Hundreds of images ran through my mind, like the flashes you see when they're brainwashing people in a bad sci-fi movie. |
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| If you're a sci-fi fan, this one may still be up your alley, but I don't strongly recommended. |
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| Ray Bradbury, author of sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, is nettled at Moore's twist on his classic title. |
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| This project is a sculptural work that stemmed from my interest in sci-fi, technology, and the impulse for relaxation or solitary meditation. |
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| The elegant sci-fi tale describes a spaceman who returns to Earth after 80 years having only aged 10 minutes. |
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| The twist that he brings to this space opera is blending the sci-fi elements with a look and feel straight out of a Western. |
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| Normally in bad sci-fi, even after crashing, spaceships work without a problem the second time they start them up. |
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| Beyond the obvious implications for sci-fi buffs and other space enthusiasts, the episode sheds light on the versatility of free enterprise. |
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| California draws visionaries, seekers, nutters and pseudo-scientists, many with sci-fi dreams roaring in their ears. |
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| Despite its sci-fi nature, plugging nutrigenomics into your training plan is fairly simple. |
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| The storyline behind Infestation depicts the routine sci-fi staple of aliens at war with mankind. |
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| He has crafted more realistic versions of the cast that are much more appropriate for the series' hard sci-fi background. |
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| My scientific background consists of a few relevant Carl Sagan books and hard sci-fi novels. |
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| They were large intimidating black metalic ships with markings on their dorsal wings, like something out of a sci-fi horror show. |
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| In order to be classified as sci-fi does a piece have to overtly explain itself in scientific terms? |
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| The piece was initially meant to be, among other things, a pastiche of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi entertainments. |
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| You have to love sci-fi babes with perfectly coiffed hair and make up running around planets with high-heeled boots and pajama uniforms. |
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| Super-important sci-fi movies always show the future as slate gray and cold blue. |
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| Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality? |
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| When we've colonized space and mastered interstellar travel, can there even be sci-fi anymore? |
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| Such associations jibe with Richter's sci-fi vision of a chaotic, violent, perhaps post-apocalyptic society. |
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| He crosscuts their obsessive stories with hilarious footage from circuses and old sci-fi films. |
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| For Bay, the movie represents an opportunity to direct a futuristic sci-fi thriller, but he insists that it is in no way geeky. |
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| The dalek and TARDIS belonged to Blake Edgerton, who runs a sci-fi memorabilia show in Brisbane. |
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| The monsters and other sci-fi characters are the attractions that draw people to our events, and help us raise money. |
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| Occasionally, when I'm bored, I'll play with my pubes, twisting them into little spires so they look like a city out of a sci-fi novel. |
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| His works are kinetic, pulpy and filled with the conventions of noir, fantasy, and sci-fi. |
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| While the film was not the director's usual sci-fi, gory, effects driven fare, it still provokes a great deal of thought. |
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| It's like all those robots you see on sci-fi programmes where the insides have electronics and wires. |
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| I used to watch this show when I was a little tacker and it combined precisely the right amounts of grotesquerie, intrigue, schlock and sci-fi. |
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| To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up. |
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| Now, a scientist believes male dwarf minke whales may make a sci-fi sound to attract females. |
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| Back in the day, when I was much more of a sci-fi dweeb, I was into more of the quasi-magical soft science fiction. |
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| If you don't already have arachnophobia, you might after seeing this sci-fi flick. |
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| You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose. |
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| Other sci-fi icons appearing at the event include Brian Blessed, Peter Davison, and Mad Max and Farscape actress Virginia Hey. |
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| Orphan Black This acclaimed sci-fi drama stars Tatiana Maslany as a series of women who turn out to be clones. |
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| What does Soylent have going for it other than missionary zeal and a revoltingly kitschy sci-fi throwback name? |
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| The quirky sci-fi thriller Transcendence finds depp playing a scientist whose brain is downloaded onto a supercomputer. |
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| These radio units help skiers caught in an avalanche to locate each other, emitting a stream of high-pitched bleeps like a comedy sci-fi homing device. |
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| The mysterious trailer for the sci-fi adventure already has the Internet salivating. |
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| A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed. |
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| Moon Child is a low budget Japanese yakuza vampire sci-fi action drama. |
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| And one finds both sorts of dystopian authors represented in the annals of Chinese sci-fi. |
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| I think this is why we look to sci-fi for this kind of social commentary, since it's better at playing with metaphysics than accurately reflecting political realities. |
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| Some of the greatest sci-fi inspired scores from both film and television were included in the concert. |
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| Mr Vitale said, 'With its rich history of imaginative storytelling, Doctor Who is a true sci-fi classic. |
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| Professor Ian Stewart, who lectures in chaos theory at Warwick University, hopes the same could happen with British sci-fi. |
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| The elements are present for a really good sci-fi cinematic romp but unfortunately the movie's screenplay holds the film back from achieving great things. |
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| Even odder than the choice of sci-fi lovelies is the choice of episodes. |
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| This reproduction does not simulate the jerky movements of a sci-fi automaton, however, but the strange instruments of a science fiction soundtrack. |
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| Unquestionably, sci-fi can engage the imagination in a gripping way. |
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| This look at the current status of robot evolution will intrigue technophiles, sci-fi fans and those with an interest in the social sciences alike. |
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| You will feel both embarrassed and grateful for this, even as you wonder why the cockpit looks like a 1950s sci-fi set. |
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| Zoe Saldana has also recently praised sci-fi movies for the depth and breadth of women in its ensembles. |
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| The movie was aggressively fun, and, despite its sci-fi setting and outlandish plot, somehow relatable. |
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| The track opens with a series of agitated sci-fi effects, homely robot tones that later segue into what sounds like the malfunctioning calliope of a downtrodden circus. |
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| If you're a sci-fi freak, no doubt you'll be enthralled by Macleod's future history, while there's still enough to interest agnostics like myself. |
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| Based upon the novel by Harry Harrison, Soylent Green is a little bit detective mystery, a little bit sci-fi freak show, and a little bit horror show. |
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| The movie takes us back to sci-fi of fantastic beasts, megalomaniac scientists and of course the eternal debate of science without scruples turning into a runaway train. |
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| Impulse presents Volume One of The Lightship Chronicles and is recommended for fans of hard science fiction and military sci-fi alike. |
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| This new weekly comedy is an irreverent and lusty send-up of space adventure, ripping apart pop culture and sci-fi convention as only SCI FI can. |
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| The show avoids cliche sci-fi McGuffins and tells rich stories in which such issues come up naturally. |
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| Only the pulpiest goshwow adventure sci-fi ignores the mandates of realism. |
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| It was a comic book with a real mythology that you would see in a lot of the space operas and the sci-fi books. |
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| One winter day in 1943 an odd letter arrived at the offices of the sci-fi pulp magazine Amazing Stories. |
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| Calls cost 25p T was once the domain of futuristic Hollywood movies and dystopic sci-fi novels. |
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| Sprite Award was independent game development studio Supergiant Games for its sci-fi themed action-RPG Transistor. |
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| A swordswoman called Yukio tracks Familiar sci-fi buffet with Eastern flavour to assume control of the family dynasty. |
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| If you saw last week''s opening episode of FlashForward then you''ll likely already be hooked on this brand new American sci-fi drama. |
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| Along the way, he crosses swords with a sci-fi obsessed criminal, an embarrassing role played embarrassingly by Gibson. |
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| I press my forehead against the phoropter, the strange optical instrument straight out of a sci-fi movie. |
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| Other films include the gentle comedy Funny Bones and Luc Besson's sci-fi flick Fifth Element, as well as Highbinders with Jackie Chan. |
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| Based around brothers George and Evan Thomas, the music is a mash-up of 60s garage rock, sprinkled with space rock and sci-fi bleeps and squeaks. |
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| His next film release is Highbinders, a supernatural, sci-fi, kung-fu comedy due out next year. |
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| Jack meanwhile is Thing's human love interest Billy, who lives with his sci-fi loving mum and dad, until he's abducted by the Venusians. |
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| Despite being populated by Randroids and sci-fi geeks, 4chan's literature board is another that continually surprises with clever content. |
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| He and others in the community had begun discussing the opportunity for a gathering of Minecrafters, similar to anime and sci-fi conventions. |
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| But pass up the sci-fi stuff for now, like for instance the holovision technology that's put TV and radio in museums. |
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| Fans of the genre frequently gather at comic book and sci-fi fanfests, which often screen Japanimation films. |
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| A super-smart sci-fi thriller, which taps into our technophobic fears about artificial intelligence. |
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| Michael Ironside stars as a homicidal telepath in a notorious, exploding heads, sci-fi horror show. |
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| Actor Josh Duhamel played the character of Captain William Lennox in which blockbuster sci-fi movie franchise? |
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| A SIZZLING new sci-fi adventure series, Thunderstone, is on Disney Channel. |
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| Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have perviously featured in the sci-fi series. |
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| Casper Van Dien boldly goes where Star Trek never dared in the original bug-eyed sci-fi satire from director Paul Verhoeven, on tip-top RoboCop form. |
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| The sandfish lizard wriggles through desert sands like a sci-fi monster. |
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| Here, she puts in a fine performance in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller. |
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| Trekkers, Whovians and Ringers were out in force over the weekend as sci-fi and fantasy fans descended on Cardiff for the city's Film and Comic Convention. |
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| Superconductors have long held the promise of applications straight out of sci-fi, such as high-speed trains levitated by superconducting magnets. |
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| Party games starring Nintendo mascot Mario are ten-a-penny these days, with the moustachioed plumber leading the charge in everything from tennis games to sci-fi titles. |
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| Dame Tim Curry is a mad transvestite cult sensation in monster mishmash of pop parody, sci-fi spoof and coy sexual daring, pulled off in end-of-pier fashion. |
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| There's sci-fi rock with Starfighter Pilot, the unnerving abrasiveness of Little Hide and the heart-warming and heart-breaking Fifteen Minutes Old. |
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| Recently she finished sci-fi epic Avatar in New Zealand and provides one of the few human voices in the robot love story Wall-E, before showing up in US comedy Baby Mama. |
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| Action packed and tense, it will delight even sci-fi refuseniks. |
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| Known for suppressing his emotions and using strict logic to guide his actions, Spock became one of the best-known and most beloved sci-fi characters of the late 20th century. |
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| For fans of the undersea sci-fi classic The Abyss, a pteropod seems a likely inspiration for the ethereal alien creatures that were the saviors at the film's end. |
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| Doctor Who bad guy The Master, played by Life On Mars star John Simm, wangles his way into the top job in tonight's episode of BBC1's hit sci-fi show. |
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| The result is like a sci-fi take on Albert Bierstadt, the German-American artist whose heavenly paintings of Yosemite helped mythologize the American West. |
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| I couldn't even fathom what sort of sci-fi themed autoerotica might be on display for the perverted and sexually repressed masses that this sort of event obviously attracts. |
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