BLADE RUNNER: the Comics Adaptation by Archie Goodwin & Al WIlliamson

With Blade Runner 2049 opening this week...

Art by Jim Steranko

...our "brother" RetroBlog, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video is re-presenting the long out-of-print (since 1982) and hard-to-find comic adaptation by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson!

Check it out...HERE!

See Blade Runner 2049

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30th Anniversary Collector's Edition

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Reading Room 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "Wheels of Death" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protaganist in 2001...

...Space Station Liberty I, orbiting Mars, is facing destruction by a meteor swarm!

Commander Herb Marik, perhaps a distant descendant of the barbarian of the same name from pre-history, acts to save his crew...

For the first time, we see what happens when a human doesn't transform into a "New Seed"!

And, that he posesses many of the same characteristics and traits of his apparent ancestor, who also encountered a Monolith!

Note: We already ran "Norton of New York 2240 A.D." and its' sequel "Inter-Galactica" HERE and HERE, so next Friday we re-present the only never-reprinted 2001: a Space Odyssey tale that explores what happens when a human goes to the "next level"...

...the New Seed!

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Science Fiction

Friday Fun 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY "Wheels of Death!" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

...somewhen in unrecorded pre-history, barbarian king Marak encounters a Monolith which compells him to find a woman named "Jalessa"!

To be concluded...TOMORROW!

We finally meet the Marak of the future, but whether he's related or not to the barbarian is, as yet, unknown,though he certainly does resemble the warrior king!

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Science Fiction

THE ORVILLE Just Provided the Final Episode for An EARLIER TV Series!

Tonight's The Orville "If the Stars Should Appear"...

...provided a series finale for the 1973 show The Starlost!

Let's look at the similarities...

A domed generation ship!

People in the dome don't realize they're on a ship since they've been isolated and sealed in the dome for generations!

They use comparatively-primitive tech, compared to the vessel's tech.

Rulers use religion to control the populace.

Ship had an accident about a hundred years after leaving home.

Ship on collision course with a star.

Sound's like Harlan Ellison's disowned tv series (described in detail by Ellison himself in "Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!", available in the book listed below!).

Now some of you might claim the ep is actually based on Star Trek's "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" or Space:1999's "Mission of the Darians", and there are elements of both, but most of the "appropriating" is clearly from The Starlost, down to the dome itself!

Agree?

Disagree?

Let me know!

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The Starlost #1

Phoenix Without Ashes

by Harlan Ellison and Edward Bryant

(novelization of the unfilmed, award-winning, pilot script, plus Ellison's behind-the-scenes autopsy of the series' corpse, entitled "Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!)