Eddie Murphy is Maximillian, the last of a race of vampires from the Caribbean who travels to New York in search of Rita (Angela Bassett), an NYPD officer whom he considers to be the perfect woman to carry on his dying bloodline. Once he hits Gotham,
Three Twilight Zone-inspired vignettes address the plight of America's minorities. In Part I, a conservative African American politician must decide whether the survival of his race or the appeasement of White people is more important when aliens dem
Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother," an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet," has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor. Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in
Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron o
As always, the truth is far more interesting than 'His-story'. Here's an episode from the documentary series 'Mixed Britain' that lays down the real deal about how England went from a sparsely mixed populace to the diverse one they now have. This par
Okay, so you've submitted your novel and have finally received a positive 4 or 5 star review. Now what? Do reviews translate into ratings? What about advertisements on literary websites or popular book club sites? I've never been apt to buy a book be
Read more…First Cause opens, literally, with a bang; its initial sequence follows a news reporter and her cameraman who, on their way to cover a festival, find themselves in the midst of what seems to be a terrorist attack. It soon becomes known that the attac
Greetings fam,
I'm looking for a cover artist for an ebook I plan to publish on Kindle within the next two to three months. Prefer a style somewhere between Frank Frazetta http://www.frankfrazetta.net/ and the kind of artwork you would see on blizzard
Read more…Question(?) Why is it that in the "Movie World", You have only one Black in a Si-Fi movie (Danny Glover "Predator 2" - Will Smith "I am legend" - etc ...). Why is there never a Si-Fi movie starring more than one Black that is the Hero? Jef
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Ken Neal here with a sci-fi short that's available for free download via Scribd.com.
Prophets pertains to a SciFi/Fantasy/Cyberpunk trilogy, involving current and advanced technological theories along with mythological references. Think "T
Read more…Okay so I wanted to see if I could do a comic. Here are the results, a test first page.
The world of Brandon M. Easton's Arcana Studios graphic novel Shadowlaw is set in the future, but the writer found himself inspired mainly by the past — and a lot from his childhood.
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Noel Clarke, actor and director from the UK who previously held a recurring role as Mickey Smith in Doctor Who, has been cast in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel.
At this point, it is not fully clear what Clarke’s role will be or how large it is, but it
Read more…I was watching machines on the history channel the other day and the show spotlighted the ZCORP 3D printer and it blew me away. Any design you cad key on computer the printer not only prints out a 360 sold image of the design, it can add moving parts
Read more…Phillip Broyles is a Homeland Security Special Agent and head of the Fringe division, which was established to investigate a series of terrorist/unexplained phenomena. While Broyles comes off as professional and by-the-book, he is surprisingly flexib
Okay BSFS members I'm back with my usual off my rocker thread.
This time we will focus on "What If" scenarios involving black characters at key moments in sci-fi history.
What if Yaphet Kotto's character in the movie Alien had successfully blown away t
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Over the years as I've been more and more intrigued by anime and other japanese styles of art, I have been exposed to cosplay. Whether it be from Comic-con, anime expo, or other comic book conventions, there is always someone dressing up as a charac
Read more…Coming out at last next month from Damnation Books is Corrupts Absolutely? a dark superhero fiction anthology from editor Lincoln Crisler featuring stories by Cat Rambo, Weston Ochse, yours truly, and fellow BSFS member Malon Edwards.
My own story, Co
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I was able to upload 2020 AD onto youtube and I am featuring it for a short time only for anyone interestd in seeing how it turned out. Hope you like it! For those who have already seen it, this one has a few additional scenes and a new Moon
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