Hollywood has been trying to adapt William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984 cyberpunk novel
This week brought the news that all four seasons, plus the miniseries and the made-for-TV movie, of the Battlestar Galactica revival are now easily accessible on Amazon Prime.
Hollywood has long prowled bookshelves for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror material, going back even earlier than The Wizard of Oz, to name one high-profile (and surprisingly current) example.
These days, if you’re an epic sci-fi story looking to be told, there’s only one destination: Apple TV+.
Earlier in the year, Prime Video announced that its sci-fi series The Peripheral would return for a second season.
In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England bestowed a knighthood on notorious privateer Sir Francis Drake. The captain of the Golden Hind was hailed by the British crown for his exploits against Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and on what is now the U.S. Pacific coast (which did involve quite a lot of indiscriminate…