MadMan, MadMax Or Prophet? Brit Bugs Out To Live The Life Of Gibson

The question is, will Nix follow? A British man by the name of Adrian Bennett has defied his name and gone to live in the Australian Outback and I don’t mean the local steakhouse. No, he has decided to live out a 27 year old obsession to live the life of Max and open a Mad Max museum in the town...

September 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Warning Signs For The Brave New World

This has amused me as so I shall post it. Now, in this modern world of ours, there are many new wonders and also, strange and disturbing new dangers. It’s very difficult to keep up with what could confuse or kill you. I am here to help. A considerate fellow by the name of Arenamontanus has created...

July 18th, 2009 | Read More

Sewer Creature From Your Sci-Fi Nightmares Is Real And Really Gross

In Raleigh, North Carolina, something wet and writhing, fresh from a B or C or even D Sci-Fi midnight movie madness is lurking in the sewers. We have the video. You’re thinking as you watch this,“Dude, this cannot be real”, as you make funny faces and fight the volcanic re-emergence...

July 7th, 2009 | Read More

Giant Gundam Robot Guards Japan 24/7

Once again, we westerners must bow to all that is Japan’s Sci-Fi awesomeness. We cannot compete. It’s a dream of mine to go to Japan for many reasons. From an outsider’s view, it seems that Japan is the ultimate in grafting a living historical society with a highly enthusiastic Sci-Fi...

June 14th, 2009 | Read More

Science Fiction Isn’t Much Fun Without Science

Close to every nerds heart is the periodic table of elements. I have a copy tattooed to my inner thigh as we all do, it’s essential information at the ready in case I am in desperate need for the atomic weight of Roentgenium while doing something naked. However essential, the Table is a dry read....

May 21st, 2009 | Read More

Gee, I hope They Don’t do Something Weird with it…

NBC Universal Television recently held an auction for Battlestar Galactica memorabilia, where BSG nerds with disposable cash (or however much they could steal from their parents) got the chance to buy their very own copy of Starbuck’s flight suit or that incredible red number that Cylon Number...

May 15th, 2009 | Read More

Meet the Guy Behind the ‘Death Star Destroys Enterprise’ video

Mike Horn, currently the editor for Current TV is the crazy genius behind that video that all too lovingly depicts the Enterprise being vaporized by the Death Star. A clever mashup of two of sci-fi-doms most enduring franchises, that video is just one of two he created. It also appears that his videos...

May 14th, 2009 | Read More

NASA Denies Colbert Space Station Name

Sorry, Colbert fans, your precious Stephen Colbert won’t be getting a space station named after him despite 230,539 write-in votes, trumping the second place finisher, “Serenity” with a measly 40,000 votes. Instead, NASA has decided to go with the name “Tranquility” for...

April 15th, 2009 | Read More

Starlog the Magazine Shuts Down, Goes Exclusively Online

I was never one of those guys who devoured sci-fi magazines like a fat kid and cake, so I can’t really say I’m all that bothered by this news that sci-fi magazine Starlog has decided to cease publication of its print version and will instead go exclusively online. Hey, why not join the party,...

April 13th, 2009 | Read More

Your Essential Time Travel Tattoo

If you plan on any extended time travel Easter weekend, may I suggest you tattoo on yourself this list of absolutely must know info for any successful or even survivable foray into the temporal unknown. I say tattoo because everyone knows, unless you get to borrow the Tardis, you’re going to arrive...

April 11th, 2009 | Read More

Star Wars Nerdgasm Alert: Hot Chicks Lightsaber Fight

So what can possibly be hotter than pretty girls who, for some strange reason, have an interest in “Star Wars” and doesn’t think you’re weird for dressing up as a Wookie and attending Star Wars conventions? Or cringe at your complete devotion to a short, bearded guy who lives...

April 8th, 2009 | Read More

Six Volunteers Test Mars Mission Psychology

Four Russians and two other Europeans have begun a 105 day stay in a habitat located in Russia to test the human psychological response to extreme close quarters isolation. Each volunteer will have a small sleeping area and be able to bring books, dvd’s and a laptop with them. All supplies are...

March 31st, 2009 | Read More

Sci Fi Channel Creator Says SyFy Name Change is Dumb

This is not science fiction TV news per se, but well, it is about TV, and it is sci-fi (well sort of), and it’s kind of fun. Anyways, as you may know, the Sci Fi Channel recently announced that it was changing its name from The Sci Fi Channel to The SyFy Channel for business purposes — mostly...

March 24th, 2009 | Read More

Hugo And John W. Campbell Nominees Announced

Anticipation, or the 67th annual World Sci-Fi convention, has announced their noms for the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards. The winners will be unveiled on Sunday, August 9 at the Palais des congrès in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Neil Gaiman is the guest of honor at the convention and he is nominated in...

March 20th, 2009 | Read More

Robots And Rapture: The Shiny And Sexy Occupants Of Our Possible Futures

Robots are the ultimate Sci-Fi sex objects. While the human female can be as perfect, they come with certain disadvantages, like free will and a healthy suspicion of males. Synthetic females in film and television seem designed for no guilt attraction. Most are engineered to pass entirely as women, while...

March 19th, 2009 | Read More

Harlan Ellison Sues CBS-Paramount and the WGA for City on the Edge of Forever

Harlan Ellison, the famous sci-fi writer who wrote what is probably the most well-regarded Star Trek The Original Series episode ever, “City on the Edge of Forever”, has sued CBS-Paramount and the Writers Guild of America on behalf of that episode. Specifically, Ellison believes the studio...

March 16th, 2009 | Read More

The Apocalypse Survival Guide

With the coming Botocalypse, the thinking person must turn their attention to the practical problems of staying alive while dodging those stealthy chrome plated villains of robotic mayhem. How do you get drinkable water from a decaying urban cesspool for example? Wired interviews Neil Strauss on his...

March 13th, 2009 | Read More

SteamPunk Artistic Award Winners: Your Sci-Fi Victorian Vision

SteamPunk is a brilliant alternative parallel Sci-Fi universe. It’s a place where Charles Babbage and his difference engine ciphers a life’s probabilities by gaslight and all your darkest clockwork dreams are realized. If your imagination isn’t always enough to make these visions come...

March 9th, 2009 | Read More

Kepler Spacecraft To Hunt For Alien Earths

When the predictions of a million Science Fiction novels and movies are about to come true, it demands a post here at SciFiCool. Plus, the alien parasite grafted to my primary motor cortex demands it. I am powerless to resist. The Kepler is a 600 million dollar craft that blasted off from Cape Canaveral...

March 7th, 2009 | Read More

A Sci-Fi Injection For Your Daily Commute

I love the fact that many of the new cars I see coming off the lines are starting to look like the concept cars I have been seeing on the cover of pulpy Sci-Fi novels for years. The designers imagine these cars, but in the past the brain dead executives in charge of the car companies have refused to...

March 7th, 2009 | Read More