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ALIEN NATION: ULTIMATE MOVIE COLLECTION ON DVD

Fox Home Entertainment announce the release of Alien Nation: Ultimate Movie Collection on DVD from today April 15, 2008.
Continuing where the original television series left off, the Alien Nation: Ultimate Movie Collection includes all-five suspenseful, sci-fi movies for the first time on DVD. Nominated for a combined three Emmy Awards, the films follow the continuing action-packed adventures of Los Angeles police detective Matt Sikes (Gary Graham) and his partner George Francisco (Eric Pierpoint), an alien fugitive slave who must, along with his brethren, struggle to assimilate into life on his adopted planet Earth, without sacrificing his own cultural identity.

The nominations for the 2008 Hugo Awards for SF achievement in 2007 are out.
The principal category nominations are:-
Novel

• Brasyl by Ian McDonald
• Halting State by Charles Stross
• The Last Colony by John Scalzi
• Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon.

Related Book (non-fiction SF)

• The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher
• Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer
• Emshwiller: Infinity x Two by Luis Ortiz

Dramatic Presentation (long form)

• Enchanted directed by Kevin Lima
• The Golden Compass directed by Chris Weitz.
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix directed by David Yates
• Heroes, Season 1 Created by Tim Kring
• Stardust directed by Matthew Vaughn

Dramatic Presentation (short form)

• Battlestar Galactica: Razor directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá and Wayne Rose (note that this is the televised version and not the film which presumably would be long form?)
• Doctor Who: 'Blink' directed by Hettie Macdonald
• Doctor Who: 'Human Nature'; 'The Family of Blood' directed by Charles Palmer
• Star Trek New Voyages: 'World Enough and Time' directed by Marc Scott Zicree
• Torchwood: 'Captain Jack Harkness' directed by Ashley Way

The results of the vote for the winners in each category will be announced at the end of the summer at this year's SF Worldcon.

As we sit and wait for the 4th and final series of Battlestar Galactica, spare a thought for those speculating the series end. Recently a re-envisioned depiction of Da Vinci's last supper was posed using the stars of BSG and this has lead to speculation that it gives spoilers for the series (see Battlestar Blog )

But I have always had my theory to the series end.

It seemed strange that the 7 (now 12) Cylons are of different race types which lead me to speculate that they reach Earth at a stage in our development some 10,000 years ago and seed the various continents like the biblical falling from grace of the Watchers.

So it comes to pass that we are the offspring of the Cylon/Human interbreeding and not a coincidence that the first prime is called Adam(a).....

Have you got any theories?

Incidentally looking at the picture over lunch my work colleague and I have argued the symbolism of the 2 open and 2 closed books, the one full and one empty glass of water. The goblet and the burning pyre which Roslin has lit. Oh I love a conundrum......