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The 10 Most Mortifying Seasons of Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows From I09: The 10 Most Mortifying Seasons of Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows The 10 Most Mortifying Seasons of Science Fiction and Fantasy TV ShowsTelevision shows are like sports teams: Sometimes they just have an off season. (And sometimes they just dive down a terrible hole and get trapped forever.) When a science fiction or fantasy show has a terrible no-good year, its especially noticeable, because the fantastical plot devices get dumber and the world-building gets sloppier. Almost every beloved science fiction or fantasy show will have a bad year, if it lasts long enough. But some shows have gone so far off course that "disappointment" doesnt begin to describe the experience of watching them. Here are 10 seasons of science fiction and fantasy TV that left us downright mortified. Spoilers ahead... 10) True Blood season four Since this just aired, well be light on the spoilers. (You can always read...

The Detonator Is a Huge Science Fiction Motorcycle Brought to Electric Life From Gizmodo: The Detonator Is a Huge Science Fiction Motorcycle Brought to Electric Life Daniel Simon designed the Light Cycles for Tron: Legacy and the vehicles for Captain America, but now one of his craziest concepts yet is coming to life in a street legal version. Lets hope no one kills themselves riding it. The Detonator is an 11.5 foot electric motorcycle powered by a lithium-ion battery that gets 80-100 miles on a one-hour charge. The bike rips too�its supposed to go up to 120 mph, but heres the thing: the Detonator probably isnt the easiest bike in the world to handle. The rider sits way in the back from where they have to maneuver a huge, elongated front-end that makes even showy custom choppers with long forks look puny. The Detonator concept was drawn-up by Simon for his futuristic vehicle design company, Cosmic Motors, and its being built by Parker Brothers Choppers, which also produced a run of re...

Putting South African science fiction on the map Guardian.co.uk Books Blog: Putting South African science fiction on the map Last month, Lauren Beukes scooped one of the science fiction worlds major literary awards - and in doing so, heralded something of a coming of age for South African speculative fiction. Beukes - who describes herself as "an author, scriptwriter and recovering journalist" - won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke award for her second novel, Zoo City . The previous weekend the novel was on the five-strong shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association awards, missing out to Ian McDonalds The Dervish House at the major genre gathering Eastercon in Birmingham. But the Arthur C Clarke award � which saw Beukes beat McDonald � will be more than compensation, as will the news at the weekend that she has been shortlisted in the John W Campbell award for best new writer, to be revealed alongside the Hugo nominations in the US in August. Beukess novel is publi...

Riverside CA RIVERSIDE Science fiction lecture set for Feb 23 From The Press Enterprise: RIVERSIDE: Science fiction lecture set for Feb. 23 George Slusser, curator emeritus of the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy at UC Riverside, will lecture on Belgian science fiction writer J.H. Rosny a�n� from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Special Collections & Archives on the fourth floor of Rivera Library at UCR. The presentation, �J.H. Rosny: Science Fiction�s Unknown Precursor,� is part of the �Afternoons in Special Collections & Archives� series. It is free and open to the public. Parking costs $6. Slusser, professor emeritus of comparative literature at UCR, and Dani�le Ch�telain-Slusser, an associate professor of French at the University of Redlands, have written �Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind� (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), a translation of three Rosny novellas with an introductory essay that explains the writer�s place in th...