Author Archives: Ann Wells

Listening to Stuart Hancock's soundtrack, you'd never guess that the corresponding film, Hawk, was a short film with a small budget. Its gorgeous orchestral and choral score brings to mind the music from well-known feature films like the Harry Potter Read More

Although it is no longer Robot Month at Fandomania, the trek through Isaac Asimov's novels and stories about robots continues with The Robots of Dawn. Read More

While I, Robot and The Caves of Steel focused heavily on themes of prejudice and fear of those who are different, whether human or robot, The Naked Sun takes place away from earth and therefore away from these competing groups. Read More

Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel appeared in 1953, first as a magazine serial and subsequently in novel form. The Caves of Steel is at its heart a murder mystery which takes places thousands of years after the events of the stories in I, Robot. Read More

In the last Geek's Guide installment, we looked at robots who make music. In this Geek's Guide installment, we turn the tables and look at the history of humans making music through electronic means — a famous pre-synthesizer instrument, some famous Read More

When Fandomania chose "robots" as the theme for the month, one of the first things that came to mind was the classic science fiction of Isaac Asimov. This is just the first of a series on Isaac Asimov's Robots, in which we will explore the collection of Read More

In honor of Robot Month on Fandomania, let’s take a look at some robots that play music. Read More

Chicks Dig Time Lords is a collection of 23 essays, three interviews, and one cartoon edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea. They have assembled quite a treasure trove of stories that documents the history of Doctor Who fandom through the individual Read More

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, the first novel by award-winning young short story writer Charles Yu, can best be described as meta-science fiction. Read More

While searching for ideas for a time travel-themed Geek's Guide, I happened upon the perfect fit — a movie about time travel with a piece of classical music featured prominently. The movie is Jeannot Szwarc's 1980 film Somewhere in Time, starring Read More

The things SyFy Original Movies all have in common are bad CGI monsters, outlandish plots and, not infrequently, the well-known actors to star in them. Since it's Cryptozoology Month here at Fandomania, we will limit our focus to just five films Read More

Blue Valentine stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a couple trying to keep their marriage from falling apart, as told through a series of flashbacks to important moments in their relationship. Providing most of the musical accompaniment to this Read More