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[if you’re new to the Journey, read this to see what we’re all about!]
By Ashley R. Pollard
One part of me wants to ask where has the year gone? The other part of me say, what a year this has been for British science fiction. A mere five years ago the idea of spaceship orbiting our world was the stuff of SF. Sputnik changed all that. Then Yuri Gagarin went into space in Vostok. And, from that moment, the world of SF manifested into the minds of all mankind. Not as some improbable fantasy, from starry eyed dreamers, but as reality arisen from technology; born of war, but turned into something greater.
Phew -- and what a ride the last five years have been for SF.
I've mentioned in a past article that Britain has Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. Now we also have Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. Not the hero of a comic strip, but rather of a children's television show from Anderson Provis Films (APF), which you may all remember from when I talked about their production last year, Supercar.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are back with another Supermarionation series, Fireball XL5. Supermarionation is their term to describe puppets that speak using electronic synchronization, and the Andersons have used it to great effect, creating a brand new medium for SF.
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)
By Ashley R. Pollard
One part of me wants to ask where has the year gone? The other part of me say, what a year this has been for British science fiction. A mere five years ago the idea of spaceship orbiting our world was the stuff of SF. Sputnik changed all that. Then Yuri Gagarin went into space in Vostok. And, from that moment, the world of SF manifested into the minds of all mankind. Not as some improbable fantasy, from starry eyed dreamers, but as reality arisen from technology; born of war, but turned into something greater.
Phew -- and what a ride the last five years have been for SF.
I've mentioned in a past article that Britain has Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. Now we also have Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. Not the hero of a comic strip, but rather of a children's television show from Anderson Provis Films (APF), which you may all remember from when I talked about their production last year, Supercar.
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are back with another Supermarionation series, Fireball XL5. Supermarionation is their term to describe puppets that speak using electronic synchronization, and the Andersons have used it to great effect, creating a brand new medium for SF.
(see the rest at Galactic Journey!)
