SciFi Tech Talk

Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. - imdb.com (2007)

In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. - imdb.com

A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. - imdb.com (1987)

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped. - imdb.com

In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death. - Netflix

This week we did something a bit different. What separates science fiction from fantasy? Why are some movies/shows/books classified as one or another? Julie, Mike, and Jeff talk through this topic and their favorite sci-fi properties.

The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018. -- imdb.com

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. -- imdb.com

The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. -- imdb.com

Philip K. Dick’s ideas have influenced the development of real-life breakthroughs in everything from robotics to law enforcement. [He] is perhaps the most influential innovator in the science fiction world because of the dark view he took on technology’s impact on mankind. [He] suffered the loss of his twin sister shortly after birth and it had a pronounced effect of the rest of his life. -- The Science Channel