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1. America killed Torchwood

(Science fiction TV)

... responsible is great). God knows how I've held on for so long though. Perhaps I remember how great Torchwood can be? Remember the Japanese computer specialist Toshiko Sato or the Doctor, Owen Harper from ...

Created on 22 August 2011

2. Ridley Scott and the BBC to adapt The Man in the High Castle

(Science fiction TV)

... and Nazi Germany are also deftly handled, as Goebbels's Operation Dandelion plots to launch a nuclear attack upon the Japanese Archipelago Home Islands. The cultural interplay between Robert Childan, an ...

Created on 09 October 2010

3. With Inception one dream is just not enough

(Science fiction films)

... they helped build to break through a dreamer's projected defences and extract information. When one of Cobb's infiltrations goes awry, he is hired by wealthy Japanese businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe), ...

Created on 01 August 2010

4. Godzilla returns

(Science fiction films)

The iconic Godzilla, the Japanese reptilian monster that frequently wreaks havoc whenever it appears, is coming back to Hollywood. According to Variety, Legendary Pictures is co-producing and co-financing ...

Created on 30 March 2010

5. Robotic surrogates closer than you think

(Science fiction films)

... role-playing games. Not to mention outer versus inner selves.” The pair of screenwriters also investigated some present day research that reflected ideas from Venditti’s graphic novel, including a Japanese ...

Created on 21 September 2009

6. Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard dies, aged 78

(Authors)

... and died on Sunday morning. Empire of the Sun, a fictionalised account of his childhood, was based on his time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in China and was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. ...

Created on 20 April 2009

7. 47 Ronin, Keanu Reeves and the spectre of Mr Yunioshi

(Fantasy films)

... next year as a Japanese samurai in the 47 Ronin. With a script by Chris Morgan, this will be Universal Picture's take on the events known to history as the Revenge of the Forty Seven Ronin. Apologists ...

Created on 10 December 2008

8. 3D SF thriller! Spielberg and Ghost in the Shell

(Science fiction films)

Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio has acquired the rights to the Japanese animated science fiction classic Ghost in the Shell, a cyberpunk police thriller that tells the story of Motoko Kusanagi, a member ...

Created on 16 April 2008

9. Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost

(Fantasy books)

... they only lead to each other, having become both destination and route. Cultures we encounter are suggestively familiar: Indian, Japanese, and so on, but there is an even stronger hint of a connection ...

Created on 26 March 2008

10. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90

(Authors)

... on over 102 diverse projects, including a Japanese TV series and a new musical based on his favourite novel, The Songs of Distant Earth. Arthur C. Clarke was conferred an OBE in 1998, officially presented ...

Created on 18 March 2008