* 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi / fantasy author

Doom featured a sci-fi / horror setting with graphic quality that had never been seen on personal computers or even video game consoles.

He has also signed on to direct, produce, and write an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel 11 / 22 / 63 that centers around an attempt to go back in time and stop the Kennedy Assassination.

* Frontier Earth ( 1999 ), a sci-fi / western novel by actor Bruce Boxleitner, about the events leading up to the gunfight.

He added " Blake's 7s triumph lay in its vivid characters, its tight, pacey plots and its satisfying realism ... For arguably the first time since the 1950s Quatermass serials, the BBC had created a popular sci-fi / fantasy show along adult lines.

Hapgood's ideas also figure prominently in the 2009 sci-fi / disaster movie, " 2012.

* Assassin's Creed, a series of historical sci-fi action / adventure games

The film is a cross between the action / adventure and sci-fi film genres, and also includes elements of comedy, satire, and romance.

Nintendo Powers staff has praised the game, saying that Phantasy Star " was the first RPG to break out of the Dragon Quest / Dungeons & Dragons mold of generic Arthurian fantasy by introducing sci-fi elements.

Two years later, he co-starred in the 1996 horror / sci-fi film The Relic.

He worked frequently with sci-fi / horror writer Richard Matheson.

He had a minor role in the fourth radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a lead role in the Radio 1 sci-fi BBC / 20th Century Fox radio play, Independence Day UK in which amongst other things, Moore fills in as a Navigator.

* August 1 – Poul Anderson – fantasy / sci-fi author

Auxiliary Magazine called Brisco " one of the greatest sci-fi / Western epics in television history " and compared it favorably to the more well-known sci-fi / Western shows, Firefly and The Wild Wild West.

In its 2006 gift guide, the Christian Science Monitor gave Brisco a positive review, saying, " Folks, there are so few comic sci-fi / Westerns, they should be celebrated, not canceled prematurely.

* The Faculty, a horror / sci-fi movie by Robert Rodriguez

The group recorded parts one and two of Pink Floyd's " Another Brick in the Wall " for the soundtrack to Robert Rodriguez's 1998 horror / sci-fi film, The Faculty, with a music video filmed for part two.

In the sci-fi television series Fringe, human / machine hybrids utilize a device which consist of a control box attached to two sets of wires with three prongs on the ends.

Such a box set might include an entire season or seasons of a popular TV program, a collection of films by a well-known director or starring a well-known actor / actress, or a collection of films of a particular genre such as horror, sci-fi and westerns.

; All Tomorrow's Zombies: This supplement is the sci-fi expansion for AFMBE, and contains rules for starships, cyberpunk, and general future tech, as well as containing very different sci-fi Deadworlds.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

Today SJG publishes games of numerous varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games ) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror ); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.

Such clothing range from exotic stylized bathing suits to extreme costuming including body armor and sci-fi fantasy suits.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

* Showtime Beyond ( SHOB ): The channel features a mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror films as well as Showtime original sci-fi series ; launched in 1999.

* OuterMax: Sci-fi, horror and fantasy films ; features " Graveyard Shift ", a featured sci-fi or horror movie every night at 12 a. m.

* February 17-Andre Norton, sci-fi and fantasy author ( died 2005 )

It has developed into the UK's fastest growing annual celebration of horror, fantasy and sci-fi cinema and television with classic chillers, fantasy epics, special guests and rare screenings.

* November 6-L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author

This film is rated PG by MPAA for brief mild sci-fi fantasy violence and some language.

It was set in the distant future and mixed fantasy and sci-fi elements, pitting players against robotic necromancers and the like.

Figurines of comic book or sci-fi / fantasy characters without movable parts have been referred to by the terms inaction figures ( originally used to describe Kevin Smith's View Askew figurines ) and staction figures ( a portmanteau of statue and action figures coined by Four Horsemen artists to describe Masters of the Universe figures ).

In the fantasy / sci-fi anime Silent Möbius, the " project YLEM " plays a crucial role for the whole order of events, as it is responsible for the creation of Yuki Saiko.

Cho conceived of a 6-part " raunchy sci-fi fantasy romp " called " The Body ", centering on an intergalactic female merchant, Katy Wyndon, who can transfer her mind into any of her " wardrobe bodies ", empty mindless vessels that she occupies to best suit her negotiations with the local alien races that she encounters while traveling the galaxy trading and seeking riches.

Cream Lemon is a collection of somewhat surreal stories having different settings and situations at different points in time, with genres including fantasy, comedy, suspense, sci-fi, action, drama and mystery.

His major works include the fantasy novel series Arslan Senki ( アルスラーン戦記 ), also known as The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and the sci-fi space opera novel series entitled Ginga eiyū densetsu ( 銀河英雄伝説 ), also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, both of which were adapted as anime and manga.

The titles are often based in a sci-fi or fantasy universe and are distinguished from single or small-scale multiplayer RTSes by the number of players and common use of a persistent world, generally hosted by the game's publisher, which continues to evolve even when the player is offline.

* The Spacey Awards: Space presents its own awards called the Spacey Awards to the best in sci-fi, fantasy and horror films, television series and video games.

In 1991, Campbell played the lead role in the retro sci-fi fantasy film The Rocketeer.

He has a huge passion for collecting, Role-playing games, sci-fi, dinosaurs, guns and visual novels.

* Galactic Empire ( series ), a sci-fi series by Isaac Asimov, also called the Empire novels or trilogy

* E. Howard Hunt – CIA officer involved in the Watergate Scandal, writer of spy / sci-fi novels

Art is represented by a ' hack ' writer, cranking out several fantasy and sci-fi novels a year for money.

is a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions.

A ruthless tyrant from a series of sci-fi novels, Zhark begins work at JurisFiction around the same time as Thursday and is apprenticed to Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.

Later ( 1936 – 1943 ) he used pen name J. M. Troska ( Troska means a ruin in Czech, to point out his physical suffering ) and published mostly sci-fi novels.

Dragonfall 5 was a series of children's sci-fi novels written by Brian Earnshaw in the 1970s.

Paradox Press was designed to publish graphic novels that were not of the superhero genre ( as comprises most of DC's publishing efforts ) and were lacking the fantasy and sci-fi elements of DC's " mature reader " line, Vertigo comics.

This was not the only time his work was adapted in Japan: Captain Future was officially adapted into an anime series by Toei Doga in 1978, and that same year, Tsuburaya Productions adapted his Starwolf novels into a tokusatsu sci-fi action series of the same title.