Strangers and Aliens: Science Fiction & Fantasy from a Christian Perspective
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NEWS: New Amazing Spider-Man Movie Poster
From SuperheroHype: I have to say, I love this poster. As far as posters go, this actually gets me excited. It’s very, very simple. The spider symbol is something that is recognizable. I remember when the first Batman movie came out and the poster was simply the Batman symbol. That was all that was needed.…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#7)
#7 Planet of the Apes (1968) Planet of the Apes is about an astronaut crew who crash-land on a strange planet in the distant future. At first the planet seems uninhabited, but soon the humans discover a civilization where apes are the dominate species, while humans are nothing but animal like servants. When: Distant…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#8)
#8 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) “Ted” Theodore Logan & Bill S. Preston, Esquire are two metal headed slackers who end up time travelling, meeting some of history’s most famous individuals, and give one of the best school reports of all time. In the process, they shape the entire future for the better and…
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SCI-FI FOR KIDS: Wall*E
When I was a kid, my imagination was dazzled by Superman and Star Wars on the silver screen and Superfriends and Battle of the Planets on the small screen (among many, many other things), not to mention various comic books like Superman and X-Men and kids books like Narnia and The Littles and . .…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#9)
#9 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Bones take off with the rest of the Original Star Trek crew to the past in order to bring back a humpback whale to save all humanity. If that isn’t a sci-fi premise then I don’t know what is. When: 1986…
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RANKINGS: Top 10 Time Travel Movies of All Time (#10)
#10 #10 The Time Machine (1960) Rod Taylor’s character travels into the future to see how his world turns out. At first he sticks to the not too distant future, but due to an accident he travels more than 800,000 years into the future. When: 1917, 1940, 1966 and finally 802,701 Best part: This was…
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EPISODE 2 – “What if You Could Go Back … to the FUTURE”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhy are time travel stories so compelling? What is it about the idea of traveling through time that captures our imagination? What do time travel stories teach us about ourselves? About God? Why are they just so much fun? In our second episode, we explore one of our…
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QUOTE: Nicholas Meyer on Allegory and Metaphor in Star Trek
At its best, Star Trek appears to function as pop-allegory/pop metaphor, taking current events and issues (ecology, war, racism) and objectifying them for us to contemplate in a sci-fi setting. The world it presents may make no scientific sense but it is well and truly sufficient to lay out human questions for us to think…
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Shatner’s Thanksgiving Warning . . .
I’ve never seen a more poetic depiction of a man and his turkey fryer . . . Here’s a public service announcement about turkey fryer safety. There’s so much to love about this video. “But I was young and arrogant . . .” Score one for Kirk . . . you could never imagine Patrick…
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COMMENTARY: Star Wars-My Personal Rankings (You won’t believe #2)
STAR WARS: BATTLE FOR # 1 by Dr. Jayce Over the past few decades the stories of Jedi vs. Sith have raged on, but today we will discuss a different battle of good vs. evil. I am posting a fire starter. I am pitting each of the Star Wars movies against each other. My Co-hosts…
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QUOTE: Asimov on religion in sci-fi
. . . it is impossible to write science fiction and really ignore religion. What if we find intelligent beings on other worlds? Do they have a religion? Is our God universal, and is he/she.it their God as well? What do we do about it? What do they do about it? This point is almost never taken up but, since…
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The White House’s Official Stance on . . . Aliens
Finally, a president who is willing to let the truth be revealed! There’s a new initiative on the White House’s website that, if you have a petition with 25,000 signatures, they will address your question. So of course, people are going to ask the question that is in front of most Americans these days: “What…
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REVIEW: William Shatner’s “The Captains”
I’m a big fan of William Shatner. If we ever do a podcast to tackle the classic “Kirk vs. Picard”, there will be no question what side I fall on. I will listen to opposing arguments, but I will not change my mind. (Gauntlet thrown, Dr. Jayce.) I enjoy watching Shatner in Star Trek,…
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EPISODE 1 – “Why Sci-Fi”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOur first episode of Strangers and Aliens the podcast is up and ready to go! In this episode, our intrepid heroes discuss what got them interested in science fiction and fantasy in the first place and why imaginative fiction engages them now. After you listen to the episode,…
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Welcome to Strangers and Aliens
Welcome to Strangers and Aliens, a blog and podcast exploring the nexus of faith and imagination. The website is the nexus for Strangers and Aliens itself — here you will find the podcast, our main event, so to speak; the blog, which will feature thought provoking articles and quotes, along with book and movie reviews;…
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