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But in the case of "Battlestar," a series following the survivors of an apocalyptic attack on their home planets by rebellious robots, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, the NBC-Universal unit responsible for DVD sales, approached the Sci Fi Channel about the possibility of creating a stand-alone episode first.
Before the episode was shown, a half-hour special was shown on the Sci Fi Channel about the making of "Trials and Tribble-ations" on November 2 , 1996
The Wachowskis make their TV debut with this globe-trotting sci-fi about a bunch of people spread around the planet who find themselves connecting in surprising ways.
A maths graduate who spent his twenties designing flight-simulation software, Shane Carruth announced his change of careers in 2004 with Primer, a wilfully strange sci-fi about two men who accidentally create a time machine.
Photograph: Sean Smith Not long ago I was recommended two novels by Michael Faber, The Crimson and the White and Under the Skin, both of which proved compulsive reading, the first being a period romp through prostitute-encrusted Victorian London, and the second an insidiously creepy sci-fi about a woman driving around Scotland in search of hitchhikers.
From the Jetsons to the Six Million Dollar Man to the Bionic Woman, everything sci-fi about the future was fascinating to me.
"This gave us an opportunity to change the perception about Sci Fi," she said.
They found a good interview with SF superstar Bruce Sterling talking about Sci Fi and design.
In bringing New York's thing to Sci Fi, she makes no bones about wanting to bring Sci Fi's thing to New York.
There's something slightly sci-fi about it: the mask being pulled off".
