Happy 25th Birthday to BABYLON 5

Twenty-five years ago today, the pilot episode of  Babylon 5  aired on US television for the first time. It was the culmination of five years of hard work, as I have detailed here . Babylon 5  was an…

Happy 30th Birthday, RED DWARF!

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the airing of the very first episode of Red Dwarf , the world's longest-running science fiction comedy show. Set 3 million years in the future, Red Dwarf  is t…

Happy 25th Birthday to STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine  turns 25 years old today. Deep Space Nine  hit screens on 3 January 1993 with its feature-length pilot episode Emissary . The first spin-off from Star Trek: The Next Gener…

Science Fiction just turned 200

Two hundred years and one day ago, science fiction as we know it was created. On 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley (nee Wollstonecraft) published her novel Frankenstein;, or The Modern Prometheus , a book…

Happy 40th Anniversary to BLAKE'S 7

Cult classic Blake's 7  celebrates its 40th anniversary today. The original crew of Blake's 7: from left-to-right, thief Vila Restal (Michael Keating), telepathic guerrilla Cally (Jan Chappel…

Happy 10th Anniversary to MASS EFFECT

On 20 November 2007 the video game company BioWare took one of the biggest risks in their history by releasing what was only their third original game, not one set in a pre-existing universe. The fir…