Category: Science Fiction
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Alan Rickman Was Going To Be Doctor Who?
I popped open another vintage magazine from the pile this morning. It’s been a while, and the pile has just been sat there, so it was time for another delve. This time, I picked TV Zone #55 from June of 1994. Here’s the cover, just to tease you with some of the excellent content, because…
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Quark and Captain Nice
Buck Henry won an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Graduate, and co-created the smash hit TV show Get Smart with Mel Brooks. In amongst that though, he created two much more short-lived shows, Quark and Captain Nice. Quark aired as a mid-season replacement on NBC in February of 1978, and was cancelled less…
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Normalverse
“Don’t read this in a public place, you won’t be able to stop yourself laughing out loud. It reminds me of Douglas Adams, the careful plotting mixed with those absurdities and jokes that sneak up and make you snort tea through your nose. Hilarious.” Goodreads. What if you really were the centre of the universe?…
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Science Fiction: Schrödinger’s Cat In A Hat
You’ve heard of Schrödinger’s Cat. It’s the thought experiment that illustrates the problem with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Seal a cat in a box, along with a Geiger counter, some poison and some radioactive material. When an atom is released, the flask of poison is shattered and the cat will die. That’s assuming it’s not…
