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| Amazon is working on a number of sf series |
Amazon is planning to turn sf classic saga
Culture into a TV series starting with the first book
CONSIDER PHLEBAS from
Iain Banks set in an interstellar utopian society, the Culture, which has humanoids, aliens, and advanced artificial intelligences living in Socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy until a war starts with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy. The series will follow Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’ an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any human, something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture altogether.
Netflix has revealed the first teaser and April 13th as the launch date for new
LOST IN SPACE sf series starring
Toby Stephens! Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is
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| Tobey Stephens leads the cast as the head of the Robinson family |
among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en
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| The first season starting this April will have ten episodes |
route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find
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| Ignacio Serricchio is a charming contractor lost in space! |
themselves thrown together by circumstance and a mutual knack for deception. The unsettlingly charismatic Dr. Smith (
Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but
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| Molly Parker plays mother of the Robinson family! |
inadvertently charming Don West
(Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly-skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost planet.
