Scifi Tech Talk

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine. - imdb.com

A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. - imdb.com

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions. - imdb.com

A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility. - imdb.com

After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. - imdb.com

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film. Michael J Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time to 1955. He meets his future parents in high school and accidentally attracts his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in love, and with the help of scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), he must find a way to return to 1985. - Wikipedia

Get ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes - a time traveler who never knows whose body he is going to “leap” into next and at what moment in history he may find himself! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam does it all in Season 1 on the groundbreaking, five-time Emmy award-winning series.We’re focusing on the Season 1 two-part pilot, Genesis.

Well, it's not exactly a top ten list, but we took some time at the start of a new year to think about what some of our favorite sci-fi book, movies, shows, and stories might be.

A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. - imdb.com

Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. - imdb.com

In the year 2057, a crew of eight courageous men and women must embark on a journey to the Sun to reignite the dying star and save mankind from extinction. But when a terrible accident throws their mission into jeopardy, the crew find themselves not only fighting for their lives and their sanity, but for the future of us all. - iTunes

An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. - imdb.com

The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth. - imdb.com

Jules Verne’s classic about a ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings which encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

The H.G. Wells classic story “War of the Worlds” was depicted as a radio drama crafted by Orson Welles 75 years ago this week. The story of an alien invasion of the earth left a lasting impact on science fiction.

A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. - imdb.com

This week it's two short stories --A Sound of Thunder: “A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952 issue. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time. It is based on the idea of the butterfly effect (though the story predates that phrase).Nightfall: “Nightfall" is a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated at all times on all sides.

Set in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange. Melange is the most important and valuable substance in the universe, increasing Arrakis' value as a fief. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its "spice". - Wikipedia.org

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. - imdb.com

A roundtable discussion of flying cars, with special guests JJ and Renee Valentine.