And his sci-fi credentials are top-notch, having created one of the best sci-fi television series of all time, Firefly.
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Silverman's two-year tenure, while Gaspin's entertainment cable empire--including top-rated USA Network, Bravo, Oxygen and Sci Fi--has seen ratings and revenue soar.
There appears to be no waning of viewers' interest in science fiction, with Steven Spielberg's alien abduction series Taken giving the Sci Fi Channel its best ratings.
Most of the credit for those numbers goes to Jeffrey Gaspin, 47, the boyish-looking head of all the company's entertainment cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi and Oxygen.
Of course, the results were driven largely by the unit's cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen and The Weather Channel--and the Summer Olympics, which aired across its network stable.
The great thing now, he says, is it's possible to work for someone who shares those sci-fi dreams, somebody like Paul Allen, who has a special museum to display all his sci-fi memorabilia.
Like something out of a sci-fi film, it is peppered with the remnants of a wind-seared forest.
In 1989, when Friend made his initial discovery, such talk seemed the stuff of cheesy sci-fi.
Come to think of it, what self-respecting sci-fi geek could forget these two classic movies?
On Tuesday at midnight, the latest title in the sci-fi first-person shooter series Halo: Reach launched.
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The existing concepts invariably look rather sci-fi, with web-like lines that wrap the foot.
Since then they have mostly failed to deliver practical applications living up to their sci-fi promise.
Bin, Bear and Benford, however, generally get the most respect from the non-sci-fi community.
Built in Germany, the machine is like something from a Ridley Scott sci-fi movie.
So why has he penned a book on a topic usually confined to pulp sci-fi--antigravity?
Universal continues it's trend of catchup titles on Blu-ray with the Sci-Fi cult classic Serenity.
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Remember those sci-fi moves that told us the world would one day possess a wearable computer?
The movie does prominently feature one nod to more traditional sci-fi, though: jet packs.
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The Autonomy web site still reads like a combo of sci-fi and we-sold-it-for-too-much gibberish.
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Yes, you heard correctly: web-enabled TV applications are no longer the stuff of sci-fi films.
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The latest sci-fi horror shooter from EA includes micro-transactions, despite being a paid game.
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But Burt Rutan, 61, has only ever read one sci-fi book: Carl Sagan's Contact.
The first film invented the modern sci-fi blockbuster, observes Herbert, and helped redefine America's movie-going habits.
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Jack have "full-on man sex in this series, " which shouldn't shock sci-fi fans in the least.
Michael 'ER' Crichton wrote and directed 1973's Westworld, a classic example of the ever popular 'technology amok' Sci-Fi genre.
His next film is the big-budget sci-fi film Oblivion which is slated for an April release.
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It was like watching a bad sci-fi movie in which aliens suck up the brains of earthlings.
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