Today on Far Future Horizons we are proud to present the Science Fiction Classic “Silent Running” (1972) directed by Douglas Trumbull. The loner crew member of a spaceship harboring Earths last nature reserves goes renegade when he is instructed to jettison his beloved forests and return home. Accompanied only by three robots, he ponders the … Read more
Painting of Pyramid and Face the Cydonia region of Mars © Corina Chirila Today on Far Future Horizons we present the science fiction movie “Mission to Mars” which was released in the year 2000 and directed by Brian de Palma about a rescue mission to Mars following a disaster during the first manned voyage to … Read more
On September 8th, 1966 Television boldly went where it never went before. Today on Far Future Horizons we celebrate the enduring legacy of Star Trek. For the first time in Star Trek history, five of the final frontier’s greatest names have been brought together for a seventy minute rare and unprecedented round table event. Whoopi Goldberg … Read more
The following is a guest post from my friend Arthur Gillard. He recently interviewed the creators of the science fiction/lucid dreaming web series, Anamnesis. Here is a brief synopsis of the series, from the website: When a woman dreams of her boyfriend’s death on the same night he’s murdered, she and a group of strangers … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons it gives us great pleasure to present the TV Motion Picture – Without Warning which first aired on October 30th, 1994, the 56th anniversary of Orson Welles infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast. Without Warning is a TV movie featuring veteran news anchor Sander Vanocur and reporter Bree Walker as … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present another instalment of the acclaimed documentary the Prophets of Science Fiction which focuses on the life and work of Isaac Asimov. Prophets of Science Fiction is hosted by Executive Producer Ridley Scott. In this instalment of the Prophets of Science Fiction Author Isaac Asimov (“I, Robot”) and his … Read more
“As far as he knew, it was the first time that an entire mission had been set up to take a single man to the Moon.” ~ From Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, Section 2 ‘T.M.A.-1’, Chapter 7 ‘ Special Flight’ Today on Far Future Horizons I would like to direct your attention … Read more
Very cool . . . and soon to be a full-length feature film it seems. This comes via io9. This could be a very awesome series for the Sci-Fi network, too. Must Watch: Cyberpunk Short Film About An Addictive Drug Called Mech Charlie Jane Anders It’s well worth checking out this five-minute short film, … Read more
Science Fiction author David Brin has a new book called Existence (2014) in which he speculates on the existence of life elsewhere in the universe. He recently stopped by Google to talk about the book – here is a summary: Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston … Read more
In this opinion piece for Wired, Kevin Kelly argues that we should embrace surveillance because it is a necessary piece of the new technological world we are creating. But there are two kinds of surveillance, and only one of them is workable. [O]ur central choice now is whether this surveillance is a secret, one-way panopticon … Read more