Scifi Tech Talk

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, man's best weapon is the will to survive. - imdb.com

A drifter with no name finds a jeep with the skeleton of a postman and a bag of mail and dons the postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in the post apocalyptic America. - imdb.com

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. - iTunes

An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. - imdb.com

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it. - imdb.com

Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. - imdb.com

Set in old Detroit, a crime-ridden ghetto of the not too distant future, a cop killed in the line of duty is robotized then dispatched to fight crime. But Robocop is haunted by memories and dreams of who and what he used to be. As he rediscovers his past, he uncovers a murder conspiracy at the highest level of police management. -- Amazon.com

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Men called them OverlordsThey had come from outer space—they had brought peaceand prosperity to EarthBut then the change began.It appeared first in the children—frightening, incomprehensible.Now the Overlords made their announcement:This was to be the first stepin the elimination of the human raceand the beginning of—What?—Original back cover quote, paperback edition

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Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. - imdb.com (2007)

In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. - imdb.com

A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. - imdb.com (1987)

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped. - imdb.com

In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death. - Netflix

This week we did something a bit different. What separates science fiction from fantasy? Why are some movies/shows/books classified as one or another? Julie, Mike, and Jeff talk through this topic and their favorite sci-fi properties.

The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018. -- imdb.com

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. -- imdb.com

The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. -- imdb.com

Philip K. Dick’s ideas have influenced the development of real-life breakthroughs in everything from robotics to law enforcement. [He] is perhaps the most influential innovator in the science fiction world because of the dark view he took on technology’s impact on mankind. [He] suffered the loss of his twin sister shortly after birth and it had a pronounced effect of the rest of his life. -- The Science Channel