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An Alternative History of Close Encounters

Time for a new podcast episode! Steven Spielberg's classic UFO movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind could have been very different. In today's episode of the podcast we dig into the rejected early script for the film, which was written by Paul Schrader (famed screenwriter of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver). As well as reviewing this film-that-never-was, we have a sci-fi quiz, plus our usual run through of recommendations of past/present/future science fiction.   We hope you enjoy the episode!   Items discussed include:   Kingdom Come , the original draft script by Paul Schrader for the Close Encounters project (click here for PDF download) The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast The forthcoming new edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival   Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities The new edition of Nigel ( Quatermass ) Kneale's long out-of-print Tomato Cain Updates to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction School Library Journal on updating sch...

Gimme Some Space! - episode 3 of the podcast

Time for another episode of Science Fiction 101 ... in which we reveal the source of the mystery sound (and offer a brand new one), talk about the latest SF news around Hugo and Nebula Awards, and wax lyrical on science fiction's obsession with space. We hope you enjoy the episode, and look forward to your comments - please comment below, or seek out our Facebook page and comment there.   Show Notes In this episode Phil and Colin discuss the following:   Hugo shortlist and Nebula shortlist Information sources we like: ISFDB Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Ansible File 770 i09 Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction The editor of the Dictionary of Science Fiction - Jess Sheidlower - was interviewed on the Because Language podcast. Read about the impossibility of the apparently miraculous EmDrive . Phil recommended reading Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next ( Amazon US link; Amazon UK link), but recommended ...