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If you want to discuss trends in science fiction, who better to ask than a writer steeped in science fiction? We chatted with Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial award winner, screenwriter, and novelist Robert J. Sawyer (Hominids, FlashForward) about how he researches the science behind his writing, scripting for studios and indie web series, and the upcoming projects he has in the works. (You can find part 1 of his interview here.) RECURSOR: What appeals to you about science as subject matter for fiction? Science comes from scientia, which is.

When you want a long view of science fiction, you go to someone with a long history in the genre. And a person like Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial award winner, screenwriter, and novelist Robert J. Sawyer (Hominids, FlashForward) has that perspective in spades. In part 1 of our interview with him, Sawyer shares his thoughts on the differences between writing novels and scripts, New York publishers vs. self-publishing, and why successes like Andy Weir’s The Martian are unexpected outliers that are hard to repeat. RECURSOR: You do both novel writing.

Without a doubt, people are obsessed with Mars. We search for its red spark in the night sky. We imagine traveling to it, and some of us are willing to take a one-way ticket there. Even a private firm like SpaceX is set to launch a test capsule toward the magnificent red planet in 2018. So, it’s no surprise that a film set on Mars would captivate us. We chatted with author Andy Weir about how The Martian captured and still stays in our minds as a promise of space.

In the year 2247, not only has humanity ventured out among the stars, but time travel has also been invented. However, there is a catch: time travel is limited to only three minutes into the past. Each starship has a “time-drive” installed as an emergency contingency. Once the time-drive is activated, everything on the ship is reset three minutes into the past — except for a final warning message known as the “exit log.” Onboard a deep space vessel, two engineers, Amy (Ruta Gedmintas, The Strain) and Hannah (Ophelia Lovibond,.

As we head toward a post-human future, there are many ethical questions to consider. One proponent of interdisciplinary conversations around technology is Dr. Teresa Heffernan (Professor of English, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax), who has organized the Cyborg Futures Workshop, happening in Halifax this weekend. RECURSOR: What motivated you to start a conversation between science and other disciplines? Where do you see science and fiction colliding? HEFFERNAN:  Fiction often gets mobilized in the tech world as, “This is our future; this is fiction becoming fact.” Robotics and artificial intelligence has.

A young girl named Sofie (Wilma Hedberg) resides with her mother (Cecilia Milocco) on a vast, isolated farm at the turn of the 20th century. To ease Sofie’s loneliness, her mother reads to her letters she receives daily from her beloved absentee father. One fateful day, however, Sofie discovers a shocking secret about her family and farm that will change her reality forever. RESET is a gripping sci-fi mystery with a mind-bending twist you won’t see coming. Created by Swedish filmmaking duo Fredrik Akerström and Marcus Kryler, the short is also beautifully acted and gorgeously shot. In fact, the vivid.

Some things improve with age, and that includes film festivals. We spoke with festival director Garen Daly about the lasting impact of the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival (Boston SciFi) and its continuing dedication to bringing genre films to an intelligent, eager audience. “We are a boutique film festival that specializes in high end storytelling,” Daly explains. The event includes nine days of short films, full length features, webisodes, workshops and more. The final day is a 24-hour film marathon, with an in-memoriam feature, cartoons, trailers, sing-along and, of.

One strength of science fiction is its capacity to ask hard questions about the world we live in and offer new ways of thinking about them. We chatted with husband and wife team, Vincent Tran and Riyaana Hartley, about their indie sci fi think piece, One Under the Sun. RECURSOR: Tell us about the concept behind One Under the Sun. What’s it about? VINCENT TRAN (VT): We wanted to propose an idea — what would it take to have a day without war? The world is so complicated and so layered that people can’t imagine it..

We chatted with Derek Ting, who recently produced his first science fiction-themed feature Agent, about creating a sci fi thriller, what inspires his work, and more. RECURSOR: What led you to make an independent science fiction feature? DEREK TING: I’ve always loved science fiction. It started when I saw Return of the Jedi as a kid (and subsequently all of the other ones). Aliens, Terminator, and Predator are also some of my favorites growing up. I always wanted to make a science fiction movie, but I didn’t want to.