FanDominion

In case you ever wondered why movie critic Roger Ebert is one of the kinder of the mainstream media critics toward science fiction and fantasy, wonder no more. He’s been a fan for decades, as attested to a May 4, 2008 entry in his blog:
Fanzines were mimeographed magazines that were circulated by mail among science [...]

Billed in the tech press as Google’s version of Wikipedia, Knol may offer writers of original content a whole lot more.
More control of their material, more freedom and, most importantly, more credit.

The Good

Allows you to keep all copyrights and control of your material
Bylines – take credit for what you create
Google hosts the content – but does not [...]

Well, we’re still in “beta” stage here at FanDominion – not yet ready for prime time. But it’s getting closer every week.
In the past 30 days, we’ve accomplished quite a few things:

Complete site redesign from a one-person blog to a Fan-based news zine.
Added many features that made it both writer and reader friendly.
Used as [...]

Here is a smashup of William Shatner’s cover of “Common People,” a song by the UK band, Pulp. It has been set music-video fashion to scenes from the 1970’s Star Trek: The Animated Series with very good lip sync matching by YouTube user “KirkSlashSpock.”
Note to fen: This has very, very light K/S fanfic themes and [...]

Joss Whedon is coming back to TV with a new science fiction series.
For the handful of readers who do not know who this man is, he is the creator of dark fantasy television classics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as well as the cult space opera Firefly (and he was the writer/director of the spin-off movie, [...]

Serenity (2005)
Having just seen Serenity, a film that will probably go down as the best science fiction film of 2005 (beating out more-hyped fare such as War of the Worlds), I feel compelled to tell folks they must see this film.
This movie singlehandedly raises the humble space opera up from the paint-by-numbers audience expectations of [...]

Neville Hobson at Web Pro News has a nice article here that details how The producers of Serenity are allowing sneak peeks of the film to bloggers.
He talks bout how this could be a turning point when film studios become less reliant upon mainstream media critics.

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Science Fiction fans are buzzing about Universal Pictures’ new film Serenity, directed by Joss Whedon, which is scheduled to open in the U.S. and Canada Friday, Sept. 30. According to Box Office Mojo, the film is scheduled to be released in more than 2,100 theatres, making it the second-widest release of the week, behind MGM’s [...]

Just Like Heaven (2005)
15 years ago, a little fantasy film about love conquering death called Ghost, starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg stole audience’s imaginations an went on to become of the the biggest blockbusters of 1990.
Now in 2005, DreamWorks has re-worked the idea into a romantic comedy where recent widower David (Mark [...]