Simon’s Scifi Space -Interstellar

It's 10 years ago this year that Chris Nolan completed and released a new science fiction film, rather ordinarily called Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne HathawayLike all great Scifi stories there's so much in this it's almost hard to know where to begin, a dying Earth, a desperate human race, wormholes, relativity, a super …

Simon’s Scifi Space -Dark Matter

A while ago I heard about this book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and I bought it with my usual open mind about what the story might be like. If I was to describe this story it's a story that comes in layers.A first you have the story protagonist Jason Dessen taking a short …

Simon’s Scifi Space – 2001 A Space Odyssey

Perhaps one of the most influential Sci-Fi stories of recent times to come about was 2001 A Space Odyssey. The film was released in 1968, before the Moon landings and yet some of the visual depictions still hold up well today. The film has aged very well. What many don't know is that many of …

Simon’s Scifi Space -Isaac Asimov’s Foundation

Recently I've been listening to the Foundation series of books by Isaac Asimov. The concept centres around something called Psychohistory where in essence the behaviour of a large group of humans can be determined far into the future.In this concept generally a single person cannot affect the series of events so assuming you start off …

Blog Orbit – January 2024

Hello there bloggies! We have arrived in 2024 and have hopefully arrived safely into this new year - a new year of possibility, challenge and perhaps adventure. I've already said my happy news years to all but if anyone reading this had been left out - happy new year!Last month was quite busy in many …

Simon’s Space 2023 – The SCI-FI

As this year draws to a close I'm going to do a set of posts that reflect a bit on what I've done and look back on this blogging year and have a bit of fun showing it off again. I don't know about other bloggers but it's not often I get to look back …

Blog Orbit – December 2023

Hello there bloggies! Here we are... December. How did that happen? Last I knew it was May and still cold. Now it's December and it's cold and now wet. We're nearly another year down and I'm thinking about the Letter to Myself that I always write at the beginning of the year, to be opened …

Simon’s Scifi Space -How our Present Affect our Vision of the Future

Recently I've been listening to the Foundation series of books by Isaac Asimov. The concept id very interesting and I'll be talking about that in another post but in this post there's one thing that struck me about the fictional world in which The Foundation stories are set. It's like 1950's America. With newspapers and …

Simon’s Scifi Space -Star Trek Picard S2

There was a lot of hype around the second series of Star Trek Picard, rumours flying about all over the place. One thing that seemed apparent was that the rather mysterious Q was going to be in the story. It seemed from the trailers that he was more menacing that the more mischievous character he …

Simon’s Scifi Space – The Martian

As long term readers of this blog know I have a long term love of Science Fiction and all the fun and strangeness that comes with it. I'm going to be looking at the written and the visual Sci-Fi that's out there and just waffling on about it really. I hope you enjoy! In space …

Simon’s Scifi Space – AD Astra

All the way back in 2019 before the world went mad over pandemics and lockdowns a tantalising film came out called Ad Astra. Starring Brad Pit the trailer for the film promised an epic storyline and visuals. Of course that was more than enough to tempt me into watching it. What was clear right from …

Simon’s Scifi Space – The Midnight Sky

As long term readers of this blog know I have a long term love of Science Fiction and all the fun and strangeness that comes with it. I'm going to be looking at the written and the visual Sci-Fi that's out there and just waffling on about it really. I hope you enjoy! The Midnight …