Sci-fi interlude: The Twelve Colonies of Kobol (plus a little Goldacre)
Inspired by fellow Sciblogger Michael Edmond’s recent post on science fiction, I present something very much in that rein. Universe. Star system. Something…
I’ve been a lifelong lover of all things science fiction. My early reading included much Asimov and C. Clarke, and the offerings of recent science fiction writers are a veritable cornupia of joy (Ian M Banks’ Culture novels being a good example).
Of course, there’s also been some very fine science fiction visualised through television, cinema (and more recently, teh interwebs) over the years. Of these, a particular favourite was the modern remake of Battlestar Galactica. Truly, truly glorious stuff. For those who’ve not watched it: do so. You don’t even have to like sci-fi, promise (it’s that good).
And so to my gift. Well, a gift given the world by BSG’s science advisor Kevin Grazier and writer Jane Espenson, with dissemination aid by yours truly: a beautiful, and ‘totally official’ map of The Twelve Colonies of Kobol: central dogma to the mythos of BSG.
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Go here to see a higher-res version of the map, or to order a real version* of it. The site also has a rather fascinating interview with the map’s creators, which was intended as a backgrounded of its development, but ended up being a lovely little backgrounder on the science and backstory of BSG.
And, since I promised, some Goldacre too (my, what a day of gifties).
I was sent this recently, and, quite amazed that I hadn’t actually seen it, figured I’d share it for those who had also somehow missed it.
[Could he talk _any faster_?]
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* Likely to consign you to permanent, and godlike**, nerd/geekdom
** Pun intentional
0 Responses to “Sci-fi interlude: The Twelve Colonies of Kobol (plus a little Goldacre)”
Nice, Aimee, very nice.
Though having had a quick look at the Battlestar Galactica chart I think they have made a slight error under Picon.
I think Ben definitely needs to switch to decaf!
Nah, I like the hyper thing 🙂
As to the Picon reference: Queenstown?! Awesome! (And well done for noticing)
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