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Excerpt from Mortal Engines. "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried out bed of the old north sea. In happier times, London would have never bothered with such feeble prey. The great traction city had once...

Possibly Sliders? That used to be shown on BBC2.

Ive noticed that now there's a guide to the Nights Dawn universe called the confederation handbook. Its full of everything you could ever want to know concerning the novels.

There is actually a book out there by William Gibson called The Difference Engine. It follows the alternative time line that maybe would have occurred if Babbages machine had been taken seriously. Ive looked at a few like these but to my shame havent bought them. I remember reading one about the...

Ive read Mosaic, its quite a good read. My favourate star trek novel is Q squared by Peter David. It follows several different timelines all concerning the crew of The Enterprise. If anyone can remember the tng episode where all the enterprises appeared from alternative universes and wondered...

Did this species need extra help breathing in a normal atmosphere?

Alien 3. Vincent Wards wooden planet. Anyone out there who has the Alien Quadrilogy should check out the bonus disk for Alien 3. Now it has to be said that I find this movie the weakest of the four, it just doesnt float my boat so to speak. The characters are all ex convicts, you find yourself...

Thats gotta be Newt outa Aliens. :p

To be honest I did feel that Sam came out second best at the end. To me all Frodo did was wander about, grimace, do a bit of moaning and then grimace again. All this was done with a look on his face like he was about to burst into tears. Sam saved his life countless times, he faced off against...

I read the books first and like you say, they clear up the fuzzy bits in the film very well. It's just a shame that 2001 came out as a movie before the novel. People must have been wandering about thinking "Eh?" Going back to your problem though Thor, maybe you should follow Tabitha's...

The Baby at the end is supposed to signify Bowman reborn as a starchild, the next evolutionary step in humans. The Black slab kickstarts this at the moment of his death just in the same way it tampers with the apes at the begining of the movie. The baby is how Bowman percieves himself...

Ive just got this for Christmas. I dont know what system you have it for dave, mines for the pc. Its pretty cool but I find the direction controls a bit off putting, I seem to spend most of my time jumping in the completely wrong direction. :rolleyes:

Stephen King's The Wolves of Calla

I agree with you 100% Dave, thats the point I was trying to make, I was posting that in a response to one of MetalAliens earlier entries. I love this kinda thing and I love the fact that ive found like minded people to do it with. :p I think nerds are cool. It takes a lot of dedication...

Anyone seen the Anime version? Bit too long for my liking :o

Giger's style of artwork carrys the title Bio-mechanical. This encompasses his whole portfolio and is just that, his style, not a description of certain objects that he paints or produces. The Alan Dean Foster novelisation of the first film had to have been wrote from the script rather than the...

I agree with markpud here. We all know that these are movies and as such only there as an entertainment tool but speculation on these films kinda adds to their appeal. ;) I wonder if The Company had rivals and as such where open to competition or industrial espionage? Mounting a full blown...

I have to say that my vision for the future is a kind of bleak one. I feel that society as a whole is in regression. Anyone who has read Harry Harrisons "To the stars" would get my meaning. Politics and class as a whole hold no intrest for me at all but my vision travels along these lines. Take...

Swan song is a fantastic read. It reminds me a little of Stephen Kings "The Stand" but has a story line that just hooks you and makes you feel the need to burn the midnight oil. I read stinger a while ago now. I lent my copy to a friend and never got it back. I like the idea that the main...

Ok, its the Amtrak wars. Anyone else wanna go?:rolleyes: