The Classic Science Fiction Channel

Steve Davidson's The Classic Science Fiction Channel is well worth the time of a good science fiction nerd (and I use the word nerd in a lovingly affectionate way - few of my friends aren't nerds of some kind). You want your classic Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon? Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot? This is the place for you. Here's Steve's manifesto for the Web Channel he has created.

I started TCSFC as a simple expression of anger and protest over the ill-mannered way in which the SciFi Channel has treated its core audience, of whom I am supposedly a member. The protest got picked up by BoingBoing, and away we went.

In short: I'm not a 'Geeky Young Guy', nor is a goodly portion of the fannish community; 'What If?' is a completely unacceptable definiton for the genre: under such a definition, shopping for bread becomes SF - What If I get the rye instead of the pumpernickel? What If I go crazy and get Wonderbread instead?. And the (soon to be former) President of SFWA should cut off his tongue for suggesting that writers might think about dumbing down their content to appeal to a wider audience, even if it was meant as a joke.

Some of the content comes from Hulu which means that it's region-restricted to the USA but try downloading AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield and installing it to get around that particular silly restriction. I just tried it and it works.

Give it a go.