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          1A Christmas Carol 1984 comes to Hulu and Tubi in November
A Christmas Carol 1984 comes to Hulu and Tubi in NovemberGeorge C. Scott in my best version of the iconic tale.
A bitter old miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.
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Children of Men 2006 comes to Prime Video in November
Children of Men 2006 comes to Prime Video in NovemberWhen infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population; He must face down his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope from danger. Prime Video
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2Oblivion 2013 comes to Netflix in November
Oblivion 2013 comes to Netflix in NovemberJack Harper, a drone repairman stationed on Earth that has been ravaged by war with extraterrestrials, questions his identity after rescuing the woman who keeps appearing in his dreams. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/ Netflix
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Looper 2012 comes to Paramount+ in November
Looper 2012 comes to Paramount+ in NovemberIn 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/ Parmount +
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3Face/Off 1997 coming to Peacock in November
Face/Off 1997 coming to Peacock in NovemberTo foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery to trade physical identities with the criminal who murdered his son. Starring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain Peacock
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Demolition Man 1993 comes to Tubi for November
Demolition Man 1993 comes to Tubi for NovemberDemolition Man is a story of a an imprisoned cop who is frozen and then thawed out to get the bad guy who got him incarcerated in the first place. Tubi streaming service
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4Dune Prophecy 2024 Season 1 coming to Max in November
Dune Prophecy 2024 Season 1 coming to Max in NovemberBefore they would become known as the fabled Bene Gesserit, a powerful Sisterhood works in the shadows to guide the universe. I have not seen anything but the Dune Part 1 and 2, but I love the story Photo Credit: https://tomandlorenzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DUNE-PROPHECY-TV-Series-Previews-HBO-MAX-Tom-Lorenzo-Site-7.jpg Max Airing November 17, 2024
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Foundation 2021 Season 2 coming to Apple TV+ in November
Foundation 2021 Season 2 coming to Apple TV+ in NovemberA complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. Source:
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5Interview: Alex Grecian on Red Rabbit, a wild west horror
Interview: Alex Grecian on Red Rabbit, a wild west horrorFrom author Alex Grecian, saddle up for Red Rabbit, a horror romp across the Wild West, where the plains are unforgiving—and the monsters are even worse. Red Rabbit follows Sadie Grace who is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. The Wild West Horror Adventure
Released September 2023
Red Rabbit Paperback Release Date: August 13th, 2024
Photo Credit: https://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/interview-alex-grecian-on-red-rabbit/
6Virgin Galactic seeks to raise money
Virgin Galactic seeks to raise moneyVirgin Galactic is proposing to raise $300 million in additional capital to accelerate production of suborbital spaceplanes and a mothership aircraft the company says can fuel its long-term growth. Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company
Headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico
Photo: VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic's mothership aircraft used by its suborbital spaceplanes. The company is looking to raise $300 million that will mostly be used to develop a second mothership plane. Credit: Virgin Galactic
7 8TusCon 51
TusCon 51TusCon is an annual science fiction convention sponsored by the Baja Arizona Science Fiction Association (BASFA), a Southern Arizona section 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. The primary focus of TusCon is literary science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but we also embrace art, animation, science, media and gaming to provide a well-rounded experience. DoubleTree Tucson Airport
7051 S Tucson Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85756
9Japan Has a Trucker Shortage. Its Solution Is Novel
Japan Has a Trucker Shortage. Its Solution Is NovelNation plans to build a giant 'conveyor belt road' connecting Tokyo and Osaka.
It's Heinlein's world, we only live in it! (The Roads Must Roll by R.A. Heinlein)
Japan Image Credit: (YouTube) A screen shot from a video of what the road may look like.
Red One’s cast and crew
Red One’s cast and crew"One of the most exciting aspects of this movie is looking at a way that we could tell Santa’s story that we’ve never quite seen before,” says director Jake Kasdan on his new Christmas movie, Red One. Distributed by
Amazon MGM Studios (United States)
Warner Bros. Pictures (international)
Release dates
November 6, 2024 (United Kingdom)
November 15, 2024 (United States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_One_(film)
Photo Credit: https://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/red-ones-cast-and-crew-on-the-definitive-santa-claus/
10 11 12Top Five Fantastical Cities That Defy Gravity Interview
Top Five Fantastical Cities That Defy Gravity InterviewOn publication of his debut novel, Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, (which features gravity-defying technology), Yaroslav Barsokov shares some of the most romantic and terrifying places pop culture has ever created. https://www.scifinow.co.uk/top-tens/top-five-fantastical-cities-that-defy-gravity/
13ALIEN: EARTH - Check Out The First Official Footage
ALIEN: EARTH - Check Out The First Official FootageHulu released a brief announcement teaser for Alien: Earth earlier this year, but it only featured the show's title logo along with a quick first glimpse of a Xenomorph. Now, we have a first look at some footage from Noah Hawley's highly-anticipated series thanks to a new Disney+ promo.
The series will serve as a prequel and will be set three decades before the events of the 1979’s ‘ALIEN’ film.
Coming to HULU in 2025 Photo credit: https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/movies/alien-earth---check-out-the-first-official-footage-from-noah-hawleys-fx-series-a8500#gs.ib161m for HULU and Disney+
14The Invasion: Win Nicole Kidman sci-fi horror on 4K UHD
The Invasion: Win Nicole Kidman sci-fi horror on 4K UHDThe Invasion is getting its very own limited edition 4K UHD release (which includes loads of new extras) and we’re giving away a copy!
This competition closes on 29 November. Good luck!
SciFiNow Uk Photo Credit: https://www.scifinow.co.uk/competitions/the-invasion-win-nicole-kidman-sci-fi-horror-on-4k-uhd/
China unveils fully reusable Starship-like rocket concept
China unveils fully reusable Starship-like rocket conceptChina’s main space contractor has unveiled a fully reusable rocket concept, reminiscent of SpaceX’s Starship, designed to support its grandest ambitions for space. 2024 Zhuhai Airshow Photo Credit: CCTV/framegrab
15“We do have a plan and we just hope we get to do it.” Silo
“We do have a plan and we just hope we get to do it.” SiloWe speak to Silo creator Graham Yost and stars Tim Robbins, Common and Steve Zahn about the second series of the hit dystopian series. Warning: Spoilers for Season One and the first episode of Season Two of Silo. Apple TV+ Photo Credit: SciFiNow for Apple TV+
SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19
SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19SpaceX's Starship megarocket has come together ahead of its sixth-ever test flight next week. SpaceX has stacked Starship's two elements — the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper-stage spacecraft — on the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas. Starbase site in South Texas Image credit: SpaceX via X
16Sci-fi writing award launched from leading publishers
Sci-fi writing award launched from leading publishersThe first prize is worth $5,000!
A new science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction award has been launched. Named the Andromeda Award, the new initiative is from publishing agencies C&W (part of The Curtis Brown Group) in the United Kingdom and UTA in the United States and will be open to original, unagented, unpublished full-length adult works in the English language, in any genres within science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that do not exceed 120,000 words.
Entries are open from 25 September 2024 until 18 December 2024, and must be submitted via the submissions portal on the Andromeda Award website.
https://www.theandromedaaward.com/submission Photo Credit: https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/sci-fi-writing-award-launched-from-leading-publishers/ for Andromeda Award
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 137 — Strange New Worlds
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 137 — Strange New WorldsOn Episode 137 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jason Steffen, a professor of physics at UNLV and a member of the science team for the Kepler Space Telescope mission. This mission finally ended in 2018, but the discoveries keep coming. Kepler returned so much data that it was like "drinking from a firehose," Jason tells us. "Strange New Worlds" on TWiS
Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space.
Photo Credit: YouTubes Exoplanet Odyssey
17New York Comic Con 2024: Everything Announced
New York Comic Con 2024: Everything AnnouncedDune: Prophecy, Creature Commandos, Daredevil: Born Again, and more.
Home Tickets available (monthly subscription)
Javis Center, New York USA Image Credit: Official Logo https://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/
18 19 20 21NASA is stacking the Artemis II rocket, HS fixed?
NASA is stacking the Artemis II rocket, HS fixed?NASA is stacking the Artemis II rocket, implying a simple heat shield fix
NASA expects it to take about four months to fully assemble the main parts of the SLS rocket.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida Photo credit: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/nasa-begins-assembling-rocket-to-send-astronauts-around-far-side-of-the-moon/
22Blue Origin launches ninth crewed New Shepard suborbital mis
Blue Origin launches ninth crewed New Shepard suborbital misBlue Origin flew six people, including a pair of repeat customers and a science communicator, on the latest New Shepard suborbital spaceflight mission Nov. 22. Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Photo credit: Blue Origin
Quantum Supremacy Release Date Dec 2, 2024
Quantum Supremacy Release Date Dec 2, 2024What is Quantum Supremacy?
Quantum Supremacy is an upcoming science fiction, adventure and action movie.
In the not-so-distant future, a fearless crew aboard a starship patrols the galaxy for threats. But when they stumble upon a planet overtaken by rogue robots, commanded by the singularity, humanity's existence hangs in the balance. Led by Captain Monroe the starship crew races against time to unlock the secrets of the singularity’s past and prevent an AI apocalypse. Will they conquer the singularity, or become its victims in the epic showdown of the future? Welcome to Quantum Supremacy. Details for this countdown kept up to date with thanks to TMDb United States
December 2, 2024 (DVD)
Movie Poster credit: https://www.moviefone.com/movie/quantum-supremacy/SIaQxDtrdYwzhmHbGSW6W5/main/
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24 25 26 27A Breathtaking Space Station Perspective
A Breathtaking Space Station PerspectiveChicago’s cityscape at night, captured from the International Space Station, reveals a vibrant palette of lights, showcasing the dense downtown area and major landmarks like the Navy Pier and Chicago Harbor. Taken from ISS of Chicago at night Image Credit: https://scitechdaily.com/chicago-lights-up-the-night-a-breathtaking-space-station-perspective/
Astronaut photograph of the Chicago Metropolitan Area at night captured on March 1, 2024, from the International Space Station.
The Biggest Simulation of The Universe Ever
The Biggest Simulation of The Universe EverA supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the Universe accomplished to date. In November 2024, physicists used 9,000 computing nodes of the Frontier supercomputer to simulate a volume of the expanding Universe measuring more than 31 billion cubic megaparsecs. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Image credit: Argonne National Laboratory, US Dept of Energy
28 29The best sci-fi movies and TV shows stream on Disney in Nov
The best sci-fi movies and TV shows stream on Disney in NovWe’re Space.com and we love sci-fi, so for our list of the best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Disney Plus, we’ve delved deep into everything the platform offers and pulled out some carefully curated top picks. As the nights get longer and colder, it’s the perfect time to populate your watchlist with sci-fi blockbusters, new and old, ready for those epic movie-watching night-ins. Disney + Image credit: Lucasfilm
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