Sci-Fi Nomads

1982 John carpenter director Screenplay by bill Lancaster Kurt Russell star Based on “Who Goes There?” By John w. Campbell jr Dog runs into camp, chased by Norwegian helicopter. Spoiler in Norwegian “Get the hell away It’s not a dog It’s a thing It’s imitating a dog It’s not real Get away idiots!” Doggie escapes, […]

With Josh and Danielle Radio series (1978) Original book published (1979) BBC TV Series (1981) Video game Comic books Film (2005) The theme music in this episode is URBAN JUNGLE 2061 by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org

Predator Special ops, probably Delta Force, lead by Arnold (Dutch), go into the Guatemalan jungle on a rescue mission only to find themselves being hunted by an advanced unknown threat. It’s revealed there was no rescue mission, but that doesn’t stop the predator from picking off everyone one by one until only Dutch is left. […]

Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) B&W film about an alien visitor, Klaatu and his killer robot, Gort. A flying saucer lands in the Washington Mall. Klaatu emerges and gets shot by a trigger happy soldier. In the hospital he tells the president’s secretary he traveled 250 million miles in five months travel to tell […]

It’s 1873 in New Mexico Territory and a man wakes up lying on the ground with complete amnesia. The only thing he knows is that he speaks English and that he can’t get that weird thing off of his wrist. He soon finds out that he is a most wanted outlaw named Jake Lonergan. Then […]

In this month’s episode we talk about Space Truckers. It’s a sci-fi about the last independent trucker in space resisting the power of the company that is trying to take over everything. In the end, he saves the world, but it’s pretty bad. This is one of the lowest rated science fiction movies, but at […]

The Plot A crew is brought out of hyper-sleep early to investigate a distress call, one that results in the crew getting massacred and a new kind of alien, xenomorphs, to begin terrorizing the colonies and coveted by the Company for use as a bioweapon. The Franchise Movies (1-4) Alien (1979) xenomorph infests a cargo […]

We come back with a second episode this month to talk about the 1964 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, a film rated as one of the 50 worst of all time. We also have our first feedback from Sylia. The theme music in this episode is URBAN JUNGLE 2061 by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org

Blade Runner is a 1982 Ridley Scott film based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. Kinda. Not really at all actually. There are bioengineered beings with short life spans and their nemesies the Blade Runners, who are government agents that “retire”/kill illegal these replicants. Beyond that there’s not […]

THE PLOT(S) Terminator (1984) Once Skynet, the US missile defense system, becomes self aware, it takes over all computers, and launches the nukes, killing most of the world’s population. A Terminator (Series 800, Mark 101) was sent back in time to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the future mother of John Connor, the leading resistance […]

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Star Trek on September 8, 1966 we discuss the original pilot, the second pilot, and the first episode that was aired. We also go a bit into where Star Trek has gone during it’s 50 year continuing mission. The Franchise Star […]

Enjoy our first episode of Sci-Fi Nomads as we talk about Europa Report. A deep space thriller, this movie was a good one to watch in the dark. It follows a diverse crew on their way to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon thought to be the likeliest host for life. High points: The European landscapes are […]

Dustin and Lauren introduce their new show, the Sci-Fi Nomads.